Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They've gathered numerous articles from women all over the country. After reading the illiterate prose that dominates the book, Isuspect the bulk of the contributors are classmates in some rural Pennsylvania junior high school.) The articles are largely in parody form, including take-offs of Ms. Magazine, Mark Eden ads, Sylvia Plath and beauty magazines...
...first appearance-Stahr sees her on a set, in the aftermath of an earthquake, floating down a man-made river aboard the great plaster head of a mythological goddess-are brought off with the checked flamboyance characteristic of the best in Panic in the Streets and East of Eden. Kazan has certainly lost none of his assurance with actors. De Niro makes an appropriately remote Stahr, bright or shaded depending on the circumstances and angle of view. Mitchum, Milland, Tony Curtis (as an aging superstar), Dana Andrews (as a fading director) and Jack Nicholson (very canny as a Communist union...
...walking nude, done in imitation of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which was itself based on an earlier sequential photo by Marey. The image stutters backward through technological time. But then it also looks like the grief-stricken Adam and Eve in Masaccio's Expulsion from Eden, and that turns the enormous grainy effigy of John Kennedy (then dead), with its repeated pointing hand, into a type of vengeful deity. Rauschenberg has had great moments of social irony. "The day will come," Edmond de Goncourt wrote in his journal in 1861, "when all the modern nations will adore...
Tropical Madness. The tradition of Romantic landscape, with its vistas of beetling crags, waterfalls and floods of primordial light, rose from the vision of untouched America as a new Eden, the manifest handiwork of God. "Artists," a journalist noted in 1859, "are now scattered, like leaves or thistle blossoms, over the whole face of the country...
...Stream. One pretty awful: Across the River and Into the Trees. (Mary recognized this as a disaster at the time, she reports. But Muses aren't hired to bring the bad news, and she didn't.) The last book, yet to be published, is The Garden of Eden, a story of a writer and his "triangular domestic arrangements," set mostly on the Riviera in the 1920s, which Mary describes cautiously as "containing some spots of excellent narrative...