Word: boschian
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...impracticality is—well—impractical. But I had long thought of Hilles as a refuge among Harvard libraries. The guards at Houghton all but frisk you when you emerge from viewing its rare books, Widener is haunted by scowling academes, Lamont is crowded with a Boschian assortment of your drowsing or deadline-crazed classmates—but Hilles remains a place apart, the ex-hipster aunt whom you seek out at Thanksgiving because you know she alone will refrain from asking you about how school is going and exactly what you plan to do after graduation, anyhow...
...witty images - a fat cat borne on a huge coin by oppressed little men, the teetering Babel of a miniature skyscraper (protected by a moat where odd creatures lurk), the iron dog eyeing an iron cat eyeing an iron bird eyeing an iron worm - all testify to a Boschian view of predatory capitalism; and the kids love it. And walking through the Winter Garden plaza, we make sure our visitors read the legend, from poet Frank O?Hara, that snakes along a balustrade: ?One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes...
Like all these, The Fisher King is long, dark and handsome -- disorienting comedy in a Boschian fun house. Some big emotional moments are bungled or botched. The narrative scaffolding, all that Grail gathering, is both too elaborate and too gossamer to support what is at heart a buddy movie. And the film's moral is bizarre: for two guys to achieve sanity and humanity, they should get naked together some night in Central Park. What if moviegoers take this advice to heart? They could get a stern lesson, and it wouldn't be applied with a ruler...
...subdivisions springing up on previously untrammeled hillsides and in pristine deserts, the freeway-choking traffic jams and the youth gangs dealing crack on their street corners, they fear that L.A.'s present could be their future, and the prospect throws them. When people in San Diego conjure up a Boschian vision of a solid urban corridor stretching 130 miles from Los Angeles south to the Mexican border, they call their nightmare "Los Diego." Consider these other examples...
...gullies and crests of Le Crete, the bare hills southeast of Siena. And by the end of the quattrocento, in Benvenuto di Giovanni's image of Christ on his way to Calvary, the landscape is real and full of fantastical character: a Roman soldier like an armed Boschian lobster, tormentors pulling and grabbing at Christ, knots of rope, pebbles underfoot -- each bearing its own color and polish, like a cabochon stone...