Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Nietzsche said that God is dead, he said there would have to be created a new set of values to replace the values of Christianity. God was dead, but guilt was not, and there was no way to absolve it. That, perhaps, is exactly the period we are in. No use saying we are going to return to the dissenting Protestant view of sexual morality at the turn of the century...
...think this is a very wild country. Ever since the '60s there has been a moving off dead-center. I see a lack of inhibition. Look at international travelers. I used to think in terms of Adolphe Menjou in his cloak, arriving on a ship, with 42 pieces of luggage. Now the international traveler comes into Kennedy airport in a summer football sweatshirt and running shorts, and his wife is wearing shorts and a T shirt and high heels. And they are flying first-class...
...with a glass window at one end, resembles those gadgets in science fiction movies that hold spacemen in a state of suspended animation while they hurtle toward distant galaxies light-years from earth. The chamber doesn't work that way, however. What it does is draw the moisture from dead organisms until they are mummified in a perfectly preserved state...
...incarceration. Perhaps the 50 states should, together, build a giant maximum- security prison in the desert. Reinvent Dante's Inferno. Let its inhabitants languish and be forgotten by all Americans. Just don't kill them for me. I don't want to be a murderer. Ted Bundy is dead. Would that he were sitting in an empty cell contemplating his crimes for the next 40 years...
...York City's Museum of Modern Art, which showed no great enthusiasm for Andy Warhol while he was alive, went after him con brio as soon as he was dead. The bakemeats were barely cold upon the funeral table when the word went out that MOMA was going to give Warhol the palladium of a full-scale retrospective -- his first in New York since the more premature effort that went on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1971. Whether MOMA wanted to get the crowds before a rival museum did, or simply to get the job over...