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...Chirico- not the pre-1918 master of tailor's dummies and spare, aching urban spaces, but the pompous neoclassicist of the '30s. Coarsely colored and drawn with a kind of savvy crudeness, Caret's Flaming Colossus, 1980, resembles nothing so much as a black squid with humanoid ambitions, silhouetted against a conventionally "apocalyptic" background of fire. Yet on this preposterous level, it does work as an image, generating enough energy to blow its neighbors off the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quirks, Clamors and Variety | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...only product of Adler's plan to improve teaching would be clones of Adler loaded with information about "history, great literature and art." These humanoid teachers might recite such catechisms while their students are trying to survive drugs, vandalism, rape, poverty and gang warfare. Edward R. Pagan University Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1980 | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Here is the ending of Humanoids from the Deep: The monsters have been destroyed. One of the impregnated girls is giving birth. It is an agonizing, prolonged delivery, the young girl's face contorted in pain, the female doctor trying to soothe her, steady her, trying to ease the baby out, carefully, the camera in tight on them, sharing the pain and expectation. Suddenly the young mother shrieks, throws back her head; there is a ripping sound and her abdomen bursts; blood spatters everywhere, pouring from her mouth as she manages to die; and a little humanoid pops...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Here is the ending of Humanoids from the Deep: The monsters have been destroyed. One of the impregnated girls is giving birth. It is an agonizing, prolonged delivery, the young girl's face contorted in pain, the female doctor trying to soothe her, steady her, trying to ease the baby out, carefully, the camera in tight on them, sharing the pain and expectation. Suddenly the young mother shrieks, throws back her head; there is a ripping sound and her abdomen bursts; blood spatters everywhere, pouring from her mouth as she manages to die; and a little humanoid pops...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

Here is the ending of Humanoids from the Deep: The monsters have been destroyed. One of the impregnated girls is giving birth. It is an agonizing, prolonged delivery, the young girl's face contorted in pain, the female doctor trying to soothe her, steady her, trying to ease the baby out, carefully, the camera in tight on them, sharing the pain and expectation. Suddenly the young mother shrieks, throws back her head; there is a ripping sound and her abdomen bursts; blood spatters everywhere, pouring from her mouth as she manages to die; and a little humanoid pops...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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