Word: hemlock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What became the Revolution's house style, neoclassicism, had been steadily developing since the reign of Louis XV. The grand exhortations to "order and severity" produced by the Revolution's painter laureate, Jacques-Louis David-The Oath of the Horatii, Socrates Drinking the Hemlock-were about as hierarchical and elitist as art can be. They were about heroes, not average men; and the world of stoic virtue and exemplary action that unfolds in them is far removed from the reality of the Revolution. The fate of David's portrait of Lavoisier and His Wife was instructive...
...Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra is the latest disc from the Firesign Theatre. It marks a return to the group's earlier mode: the 40-minute sound drama with crooked cast and treacherous plot line. The protagonist this time is Hemlock Stones, Firesign Theatre's addition to a history of Sherlock Holmes variants. He and his Watson, Dr. Flotsom, live to 99 Bakersfield St. in London, and produce cheap detective novels...
Which brings in Hemlock Stones. Who, in a blundering search from London's piers to Chicago's dailies, finally tracks the electrician in the Windy City's sewers...
Ironically, one of Hemlock Stones's peculiar assertions is the strongest warning against this album. The British crime-stopper says that when a rat stops chewing, his teeth will grow into his brain. Those who drop weightier matters to listen to this flim risk a similar mental fate...
...reports an afternoon she spent sitting beside a copperhead. "Evolution loves death more than it loves you and me," she quietly concludes. And as the very fecundity of this "eggy animal world" seems to hurry toward its equally profuse extinction, Miss Dillard mercilessly brings on bridge-battering floods and hemlock-bending whirlwinds. Here is not only a habitat of cruelty and "the waste of pain" but the savage and magnificent world of the Old Testament, presided over by a passionate Jehovah, with no Messiah in sight...