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Norman Rockwell's illustrations were not of a "dreamworld" [Nov. 20], but of a reality that I remember well. In my New England neighborhood the grandparents of my friends looked very much like those in his illustrations. There was no one with a camera handy when the boys (and girls) stole apples from a neighbor's orchard and said their grace before meals, or when my own doctor examined my doll for symptoms of asthma. Norman Rockwell's work has preserved those scenes from everyday life, and 300 years from now our descendants will know that apple...
...themes. In Lacombe, Lucien, the pale yellows and faded textures reflected the sultry French provincial world where even fascism unfolds at a meandering pace. And in a sleeper called The Thief of Paris, the visual opulence and use of decorative objects created just the sort of decadent bourgeois dreamworld that Malle's meant to attack. But in this film the visual effects, like baby, are just pretty. All Malle's often exquisite camerawork is good for are fleeting moments of aesthetic satisfaction...
...like physics, where you put things in a beaker and measure them. What makes or breaks a politician is how he perceives the public pulse, the public mood. I'm confident as I can be that the public is with me. I'm not living in a dreamworld. I know the stakes are high, but I firmly believe...
...point to any one source of inspiration for my unfindable objects," says Carelman, "I suppose it would be those old-fashioned mail-order catalogues, like the old Sears, Roebuck ones, with precise, naive drawings instead of the color pictures you find today." Thtfse catalogues define a dreamworld of real consumer goods; Carelman's show presents an actual world of fantasy goods. The 50 creations on display include a masochist's coffeepot with the spout over the handle, thus guaranteeing a scalding for anyone who uses it; an hourglass filled with pebbles, not sand, "for people...
...mounted one of those productions in which the actors don't act but the scenery does. Wagner's two lovers live in an emotional realm of their own, encountering calamity only when they have to reconcile ecstasy with reality. Everding has them floating off into their own dreamworld during passionate scenes, returning to earth when other people are around. In a starkly symbolic setting where nothing is real, it might have worked. But in this production, both world and dreamworld look equally realistic. Nothing fuses...