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...characters are furiously trying to keep things from popping out of their skin. Their ping-pong verbal exchanges--all wrist-action--are fast and funny and ultimately uncommunicative. These people don't talk, they bounce word-pellets off each other. Everything ricochets with the angle of conditioned response, an idiom of cliche, more like music than words--a high-pitched constant background. Their tough, jabbing control in conversation speaks of boys who have grown up together, pulled farther apart and more jealous of each other as they go along. Indeed, we get a connecting sense throughout the film of what...
...Mickey who made Stokowski more of a star by the handshake, not the other way round. The gesture made Pop art possible and, after a gestation of nearly 20 years, it duly arrived in a flurry of mice: Roy Lichtenstein is said to have happened on his comic-strip idiom after his son asked him to prove he was a real artist by drawing a Mickey. Claes Oldenburg-whose obsessive and imperious fantasy about turning the whole environment into one Oldenburg is the closest thing high art has to what Disney World achieves-has based whole series of sculptures, multiples...
...much a sense of cold solidity about them. They give opinions rooted in one's own life an overburdening finality, and they ignore a dialogue essential to any genuine appreciation. Working apolegetically within these limitations, I would like to talk about two poets who have explored the contemporary meditative idiom and come up with radically different visions. Both are "visionary poets." That is, they create another world--a modern myth--only vaguely connected to this one, based on their personal consciousness and experience...
...first time out, he told me about his Oedipal complex, about how everybody he knew was in psychoanalysis, about how he spent his freshman year staring hour after hour out the window. He talked with a double-tongued irony I didn't understand. Neither did I get the clipped idiom in his humor, nor the whimsy behind his taste. I didn't get much at all. But I did a lot of listening, night after night long to his storytelling...
...truly painful vocal. His solo is straight-forward, with full chords from Dickie as support. Leavell's piano is taken directly from any number of Otis Spann sides, powerful, full-bodied, an emphasis on percussive chords. Dickie's guitar playing is steeped in blues; his sense of the idiom was stronger than Duane's. Here his tone and attack are faithful, and he constructs a solo that intensifies, peaking with a slashing set of lines before moving into a final chorus, all done in a classic urban blues tradition. The only problem is that the song is faded just...