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...end/unity will be thrust upon us" Gil Scott-Heron...
Jacques Tati has made three previous excursions into the amuck world of M. Hulot, upon whose heron head rain down all manner of comic disasters. Mr. Hulot' s Holiday (1953), the first, still seems the best, the most genuinely poignant and inventively funny. Further installments - Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967), photo graphed in 70 mm. and yet to be released in the U.S. - have grown progressively more precious. Often the complexity of a Tati gag outweighs the punch line. In Traffic, it overwhelms it. Ingenuity, not wit, is the real point of the exercise, and laughter is strangled...
...skeleton similar in construction to those of monster dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus, largest land animal ever to roam the earth. But corallestris hardly seems like a dinosaur at all. Whereas other dinosaurs lived on dry land or in swamps, corallestris made its home on offshore atolls. Like a heron or cormorant, the hollow-boned creature probably made use of its long supple neck in catching fish or lizards (the remains of a tiny undigested reptile are preserved inside of it). Although part of its forelimbs are missing, they seem to have been equipped with ducklike webbing. Says Paleontologist Gerard Thomel...
Eugene McCarthy isn't running any more, and if he has promises to keep they are to himself. In this first collection of poems, the hawks finally lie down with the doves to make room for the aardvark and the heron. But in the process the ex-candidate's lines show off backward glances, once and future visions, and a loner's sigh of relief...
This sense of revelation, bursting through the simplest acts and objects, was central to Zen art. A night heron, painted in the early 16th century...