Word: crumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since Kirby Dick's Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist displays all of its subject's creative carpentry skills, it is not for the faint of stomach. (When the song The Hammer of Love starts playing, go out for popcorn.) But like the 1994 Crumb, this deadpan documentary transcends its sensational topic. Flanagan's artful self-mutilation, and especially his corrosively comic descriptions of it, amounted to a heroic decision to take the punishment that God or nature meted out to him into his own hands...
...that Europeans took from it ended up in France--notably at the Musee Guimet in Paris--rather than in England, Germany or America. But to deduce the scale, continuity and sheer aesthetic majesty of Cambodian art from such fragments is like trying to reconstruct a loaf from a single crumb...
Further displays guide you, via individually labeled subcategories, through several of the major genres of French and Franco-phone comics, past and present--the "naturalists," the "realists" and the "absurdists" (whose work may remind viewers of some of the more interesting and surreal experimentation done later by Robert Crumb and others in the psychedelic "head comix" of the American 1960s). In the category "Science Fiction and Fantasy," the visitor will find that a comic strip genre popular in nearly every country except, for whatever reason, the United States. Here you'll see the original incarnation of "Barbarella" in Jean-Claude...
...take the place of finding a way to treat or prevent BSE infection. But the disease may at last be starting to give up its secrets. A number of researchers are convinced that mad cow is caused not by a common bacterium or virus but by a vanishingly small crumb of protein known as a prion...
...comes Old Man Ferguson from just around the block--/ (I can't stand this crock of schlock!)/ The Town Police make sure you never see yourself a bum./ The Litter Agents sweep Offstage the smallest crumb./ The cleanliness can numb you; where'd they stash away the scum?/ We're not dumb; it's in the slum...