Word: blakes
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...heads out to visit the "prophets" who arise in times of stress "to reformulate the traditional path through the mazeway of nature, self and society." As a historian, he knows that the implications of great societal upheavals like the Industrial Revolution were first grasped by "crazies" like William Blake, whose ideas gradually percolated down to artists, savants and finally pedants...
...drawings, Janos Scholz. What the library now offers is of almost unparalleled rarity, beginning with a black chalk study of devils-spiky, nervous and of an almost hallucinatory vigor-by the 15th century Artist Luca Signorelli, proceeding through works by Pontormo, Filippino Lippi, Dürer, Fragonard, Bruegel and Blake...
...brutal and mangy as it is, the movie still works. It is an adept and forceful B picture, deriving much of its energy from its own streamlined sleaziness and from the skills of its two stars, Elliott Gould and Robert Blake. Both of them have a kind of sour, dehydrated charm that is nicely used by Director-Writer Hyams, whose most notable previous effort was the screenplay for the noxious T.R. Baskin. Gould and Blake play a couple of L.A. vice cops who are offhandedly conscientious about their work and cynical about its results. Their superiors, ever mindful of valuable...
...photographer's negative" and "clouds slide by like a tablecloth whipped off a table." But sooner or later, a pilgrim who refuses to believe in progress, she cuts back to the bone. To an age hooked on novelty, variety and pluralism, her message is as clear as William Blake's: "See a world in a grain of sand"-if you dare...
What should have been, at best, an act of therapy turns out to be a minor work of art. Sarah Ferguson is as intelligent as she is neurotic: educated by governesses until she was 15, an Oxford product, a quoter of the currently quotable - from William Blake to Hermann Hesse. She is also a religious woman who speaks about her "sins" and, in a chillingly matter-of-fact tone, refers to divorce as "a broken promise...