Word: junking
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...debauchedly primal Madonna. Dewitt thinks there is something inherently fishy about equating nature and primal being with a rock star whose love handles are as big as her breasts, but the film nonetheless satisfies the teen viewer's instinctive need to have his lifestyle of Fritos and junk jewelry vindicated on film. Natural primacy as a pair of Capezzio flats? Forget...
...Erving travels, throws up some junk...
...gentle humor is set against a backdrop of tragedy. The year before Macon and Wife Sarah separate, their twelve-year-old son Ethan is among bystanders systematically shot and killed by hold-up men at a fast-food outlet. Baldly stated, the irony seems a tasteless contrivance: Son of Junk-Food Expert Slain ) at Burger Bonanza. But like Evelyn Waugh in A Handful of Dust and John Irving in The World According to Garp, Tyler uses the senseless loss of a child to refine feelings out of a parent's worst fears...
...chaos of the First World War by a German collagist, poet and would-be dramaturge, Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948). The scenario casts a long shadow. Schwitters' ambition to assault all the senses with a megalomaniac collage of real things onstage is the middle term between Wagner and the plotless, junk-crammed happenings that were the talk of the New York art world in the early '60s. The more one sees of Schwitters, the more Robert Rauschenberg's and Jasper Johns' work in the '50s seems to owe to him: the stuffed goat, the paint-soaked bed, the light bulb...
...they never decay into nostalgia. Schwitters was a lyrical genius, a Persian miniaturist of the modern city street, confecting icons of junk under the eye of strict formal abstraction. One would expect the number of small pieces in this show to be, in the end, fatiguing; but it is not, thanks to Schwitters' dedication to reinventing a surface with each collage. His favorite matrix was the grid of cubism, a shallow, divided skin on which the scraps of paper and little objects surface and vanish, overlapping like leaves on a forest floor. He called them all "Merz" constructions: the name...