Word: hermeticism
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In general, Salle's work is just a sourer, more hermetic and manually coarser footnote to a long modernist history of montage and quotation that runs from Dada to Pop art -- random citation from the image haze that envelops us, with some T. and A. for signature. Its "relevance" consists...
Roth's monastic schedule varies only a little when Actress Claire Bloom, 55, is in residence. The two have lived together since 1976 and occasionally worked together as well. His co-adaptation of The Ghost Writer appeared on PBS's American Playhouse in 1984, with Bloom playing a woman trapped...
Are you the establishment now? "I've always been--from the point of view that Thoreau, Whitman, Williams is the American tradition. So that's one establishment, you might call it the hermetic establishment, the native establishment. Then there's an opposed, fake establishment that runs the money.
night, pop becomes almost overpoweringly hermetic -- a nightly TV news show that reports personnel changes on TV game shows as major stories.
Scott is a past master of artifice. In Alien (1979) he devised a grungy spaceship through which a ravenous parasite moved and mutated. In Blade Runner (1982) he created a city that existed simultaneously in the 21st century ! and the film noir 1940s. Legend offers more of the hermetic same...