Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grand Palais (through Oct. 13), is for all practical purposes definitive. It contains some 350 works, including last year's sculptures and beginning with early cubist-influenced paintings. One striking example is the superb Nude with a Mirror-solid as a column with those interlocking planes of pink flesh, the Khmer eyes, the thick hawser of plaited hair, and perched on a hassock whose needlepoint butterfly sums up Miró's pleasure in decorative enumeration...
Shakespeare's instincts played him false. For his pageant is more solid than flesh. It has not faded; the works seem to grow more substantial each year. In the summer of '74, beyond the gilt-edge bindings and Variorum editions, Shakespeare lives in his favorite place-onstage...
This is one of a currently fashionable Hollywood genre known as the disaster movie (TIME, June 10). No one, it seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape...
ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN Carries only the master's name. It is signed by his epigone, Paul Morrissey, who was responsible also for Heat, Trash and Flesh. The movie features the usual Morrissey crew: harpies, fag hags, neuters and no-talents clutter up the screen and pop out of it in 3D, which is two more dimensions than they would provide without technological assistance. The prevailing notion is a retooling of Mary Shelley, en cumbered with dismal sex and heaping portions of grue. Limbs, entrails and corpses come whizzing over the heads of the audience, along with various...
...book and the movie. He wants $7 million of the work's multimillion-dollar profit. Mark Athanasios C. has exorcised demons for years, he says, and what particularly peeves him is that Blatty has made the fictional Father Karras "a weak and failing priest." Said a professionally wounded, flesh-and-blood Karras: "The book and the picture wrongfully depict my life and work...