Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to have made the actions of the dreaming mind more accessible, vivid and poignant than any other painter. "If a work of art is to be truly immortal," he explained, "it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense or logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child." The tilted, exaggerated perspectives of De Chirico's pre-1920 paintings, their dry meridional light (he could extract more mystery from the harsh hour of noon than most people could find in midnight...
...advertisement is limited by the amount of money he or she can pay; no money, no speech. To build onto this argument an artificial superstructure, within which there is free speech for those who can afford it and none for those who cannot, is an exercise in truly creative logic. Simply put, the analogy does not make sense; a newspaper does not print everything it can, but instead sells its services --its paper and ink and column rules and headlines--to a number of customers. Like any merchant, it is wise to be selective about its customers...
Against all odds, logic, or reason, the answer is yes. Devo is that near-extinct animal, the rock band with a message. Its name doesn't come, as you might expect, from "deviant"--Devo draws its identity from a theory called "De-evolution," the idea that homo sapiens is on its way back down that ol' Darwinian scale. As a result, the band's songs tend to be about mental deviants, physiological functions, and the detritus of modern American life...
...blobbish bagel. "I was almost banging the knee of Dick, begging him to say something," he recalls. Finally Donner interjected that all the kids, including Brando's own, who had read the comic books would know that Superman's father was not a bagel. Brando admitted the logic of that and decided to play Jor-El as Marlon Brando...
...empty trunk in the basement and, later, a sledgehammer. Most important is the question of motivation. Faced with the fact of their mother's corpse and the fear of being dispersed as orphans by the authorities, the children act not out of evil but according to the relentless logic of expediency. What they do is less a comment on them than on the hairbreadth that separates the civilized from the unspeakable...