Word: golgotha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Warhol before the shooting; another would emerge after it. The former had been the onlooker, both fascinated and wounded by media culture and its power to dictate desire and nostalgia. You could not look at early Warhol (Marilyn-as-virgin, in full drag-queeny apotheosis on a gold ground; Golgotha, envisioned in repeated views of an $ execution chamber with its electric chair and its sign enjoining SILENCE) without sensing that the pressure behind such images of abased sanctity came from a Byzantine Catholic boyhood...
Then the Superdome became Golgotha, and the Pats were forsaken...
...horror lurking behind the humor of Monty Python. In The Life of Brian, for instance, the members of the British comedy troupe presented us with the deeply disturbing image of a chorus of men and women singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" while being crucified at Golgotha...
When Lowry's situation becomes an Orwellian equivalent of Golgotha, however, the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred. The living nightmare around him fuses with the nightmare inside Lowry's mind, and we no longer know if what is happening is really happening. All of his wildest dreams come true, as do his worst nightmares. This is perhaps both the best and worst part of the movie, for even though this sequence is entertaining, it is as disjointed and confused as the most bizarre of our dreams...
...horrible in her ugliness, that she would stand out from the rest of the company as a monster." The painting in question was Millais's Christ in the Carpenter's Shop, 1849-50, whose image-little Jesus hurting his hand on a nail, in prefiguration of Golgotha-might strike a modern eye as lavishly sentimental and winsome, but was overrealistic to Dickens...