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Ironically, Strindberg takes a traditionally comic situation--a mother and daughter in love with the same man--and uses it, to extract the themes that pervade all four chamber plays: the world is as cruelly fraudulent as the mother in the play, guilt is implicit in life, and death--"the final settling of accounts"--is the one escape route...
Edelin testified Friday that in the course of the hysterotomy operation, the amniotic sac that surrounds the fetus "unfortunately" broke, and that this rupture made it "difficult" to extract the fetus...
...believe that one could extract "essences" from nature-shapes that symbolized different kinds of force, growth and élan vital, and that constituted the inner structure of reality. This belief, which owed as much to Mme. Blavatsky and her ilk as to Henri Bergson, was common among early abstract artists. Its embodiment, for Dove, was in works like Team of Horses (1911), one of the first abstract paintings ever made in the U.S.: the curling shapes, fringed with sawtooth edges and inset between thick dark lines, are like a premonitory flicker of art deco, but Dove's intent...
...coming of another revival. His easel paintings now fetch up to $90,000, a fat $40 book on him was published last year, and next year's Bicentennial will pour gallons of revisionist nostalgia upon the American regionalists-Benton included. Yet it seems unlikely that future generations will extract much aesthetic pleasure from Benton's big machines. They look like populist camp and are likely to keep doing so. Benton's revival has less to do with his art than with the grass-roots Americana he celebrated, which has gone forever. Besides, they don't make...
...that kind of thing: If anything it might be compared to the third country Gulliver visited, the floating island of Laputa. Laputa's scholarly inhabitants crushed rebels by landing the island on their heads, built houses starting with the roofs and working down to the foundations, and attempted to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. Gulliver said he had never seen anyone more "awkward, clumsy and unhandy...