Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cortazar has long been in the vanguard of contemporary Latin American authors who employ surrealist and experimental techniques. With his emphasis on fantasy and indigenous mythology, and his use of innovations in novelistic form, he attempts to assert his intellectual independence from Western literary traditions. Like his Argentine compatriot, Jorge Borges, Cortazar portrays a reality in which past, present and future exist simultaneously; a world where his characters are trapped in the labyrinth of modern society. Cortazar's two best-known works, the short story "Blow Up" (on which director Antonioni based his film) and the novel Hopscotch, exemplify...
...This is no telling how long it will take "the Brickhouse," as his teammates affectionately refer to him, to train his way into last season's form, but his mere presence in practice has already affected a notable uplifting of team morale...
...themselves as dancers), it's the first kind in which the members of the audience do not immediately refer to their own bodies in reacting to the movement on stage. Here, a single dancer's body is only one unit in a larger structure; the ambiguity of the final form frees the onlooker's eye from the insistent logic of ordinary anatomy...
...result, predictably, is wonderful. Richards used to reject solo offers, saying the music would just come out like the Stones minus Mick. Maybe so, but who cares? Based on this cut and a handful of earlier efforts, we can only view Richards' recently publicized willingness to form his own band with eager anticipation...
...Windy City's grand tradition of grisly journalism reasserted itself with a vengeance. Two of the city's four major dailies have folded in the past few years, but the Tribune and Sun Times came through in classic Front Page form. On Christmas Eve, as workers began removing the first of 27 young male bodies from the crawlspace in John Gacy's basement, the old-fashioned battle was on. Until the New Year began, each day brought a new banner headline with either the words "Gacy" or "Body," or both...