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...this low-budget ($400,000) marriage of science fiction and punk. As if herpes and AIDS weren't enough to worry about, we now learn that aliens have come to earth to kill and vaporize horny humans during intercourse. Like Strange Invaders (a much better movie), Liquid Sky says that there is nothing more alien than an earthling circa 1983. The victims here are denizens of New York's underground-zombies of the spirit, existing on quick fixes of drugs and sex-for whom death is just the ultimate high. This kinky, doggedly erratic comedy was made...
...subject matter of these paper works (some of which are conventionally framed like drawings, while others, double-sided, hang from the ceiling) begins with the paper itself, its density, translucency and fibrousness, the way it hardens into feathery blots or accidental-looking rags that preserve the liquid slurry as a shrunken form, like a dried leaf. Shields has a Japanese attitude toward paper: he likes it to speak for itself, and his approach is a matter of subtle interventions rather than brusque changes. The "drawing"-in fact stitching, run on the sewing machine in brisk swoops and zigzag flurries...
Despite compelling economic and security arguments for unity, Europeans remain a bunch of squabbling cousins. "What," he wonders, "are the obscure forces preventing the coagulation of Western Europe into a solid whole, as easily as liquid milk curdles into a block of fresh cheese as soon as the rennet is dropped into it?" The most apparent obstacle, he suggests, is national pride, the belief of each country that it alone "has contributed in a decisive manner to European (and the world's) civilization...
More than 25 billion aseptically packaged liquid units were sold worldwide last year. While these packages have long been popular in Europe and Asia, however, they were slow to catch on in the U.S. One California company tried marketing milk and juice in similar containers in the U.S. during the '60s, but consumers did not like them because they were too hard to open. But by 1981, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared an improved aseptics packaging method for commercial use, a container with a straw attached, which made opening and drinking easier, had been developed...