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...There was a time when we were hanging around making low-fi, kind of quiet music,” he says. “Then we moved towards something a little heaver, a little more serious, kind of high school...
...people in America have heard of, let alone seen, the work of Ottone Rosai (1895-1957), a Florentine painter whose roly-poly figures were part of a conservative reaction against Italian futurism in the 1920s? Chia has, and his rotund bodies-thighs like boiled ham, buttocks like bumps, coal-heaver arms-are straight out of Rosai, though bigger and endowed with a crustier decorative surface...
What raised the banal to art was, among other things, social commitment. Few of the realist painters were actually the children of workers, but many of them responded to an inescapable subject matter: the making of the French working class, from city coal heaver to country peasant, in the aftermath of the revolutions...
...rest of the movie, filmed in Hong Kong and at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, offers picturesque backdrops as a substitute for the subtle erosion of character. After the Patna scandal, Jim works as a coolie and coal heaver. In the Malay Archipelago, he saves a boatload of burning explosives, ferries them upriver to help the natives of the fictional land of Patusan, who are fighting a tyrant general (Eli Wallach, aping Fu Manchu). Victorious, Jim settles down with a dusky girl (Daliah Lavi), then has to dispose of villains who plan to sack the village treasury...
...William Huntington, "The Coal-heaver Preacher" (born 1774) would have been poor had he not "found God's promises to be the Christian's banknotes." Briefly, this meant that whenever Mr. Huntington wanted something, he prayed for it, and then made his prayer known to impressionable people who were glad to oblige. Soon, God's overdraft was alarming, as Mr. Huntington had put on his tab "a country house, a well-stocked farm, a coach." Huntington died leaving a self-written epitaph which ended...