Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethnic minorities or gays, thought nothing of calling rural Southerners "naive rednecks." It hasn't been that long since the Harvard Lampoon printed a public apology for being racially insensitive, but it has yet to apologize for a cover that depicted lazy, dirty Appalachians under the caption "Inbred and Brain Dead...
...pictures made by photojournalists have the legitimacy of being news, fresh information. They slice along the hard edge of the present. Photojournalism is not self-conscious, since it first enters the room (the brain) as a battle report from the far-flung Now. It is only later that the artifacts of photojournalism sink into the textures of the civilization and tincture its memory: Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, an image so raw and shocking, subsides at last into the ecology of memory where we also find thousands of other oddments from the time -- John John saluting at the funeral...
...Eddie Adams' 1968 photo of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the police chief of Saigon, firing his snub-nosed revolver into the temple of a Viet Cong officer. Bright sunlight, Saigon: the scrawny police chief's arm, outstretched, goes by extension through the trigger finger into the V.C.'s brain. That photograph, and another in 1972 showing a naked young Vietnamese girl running in arms-outstretched terror up a road away from American napalm, outmanned the force of three U.S. Presidents and the most powerful Army in the world. The photographs were considered, quite ridiculously, to be a portrait of America...
...same time, there were critics and photographers asking whether the power of pictures dwindled as their numbers rose -- whether, as the practice of concerned photography wore on, its impact wore off, so that only the most sensational images registered on the brain. Now that every kind of grief has been presented to the camera from every angle, pictures of misery remind us of other pictures of misery. Then, unexpectedly, comes a scene of one man blocking a line of tanks in Beijing, and once again a photograph sends shivers down the spine...
JOHNNY HANDSOME (Mickey Rourke) has the face of the Elephant Man and the brain of a perverse computer. Now all he needs to take his revenge on some suave double-crossers is a little plastic surgery. Walter Hill's thriller boasts a sturdy cast (Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth McGovern) and a ripe sense of criminal ambiguity. Neat work...