Word: loon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This interdependence of man and animal lends the people themselves to dress as animals as they call on the spirits. Their ceremonial masks are the focal point of this show, and their beauty blends both religious utilitarianism and aesthic form. A forehead mask, of a loon, an elegant swoop of painted wood, decorated with seagull feathers, eagle down and willow branches, becomes the frightened figure of a dying animal...
...Loon Mt.--Fair to good conditions with granular snow and some bare spots. Depth of base, 6.30 inches...
Those are diverting conceits, good enough, perhaps, for a casual short story, but flimsy as a basis for an entire film. Moreover, Doc is so redolent of a kind of New York cafe society chic that the Tombstone sa loon might just as well have been re-christened Elaine's. A minor New York City official in Mayor Lindsay's administration named John Scanlon appears as the bartender, and Dan Greenburg, author of How to Be a Jewish Mother, plays the editor of the Tomb stone Epitaph. They stand out like two polo players at a rodeo...
...country of the mad, the creative loon is king. Around Gabriel cluster amiable freaks, all of whom, like him, define a precarious balance by opposing their craziness to the paranoia of the outside city. There is Walter, an amateur Polish historian, whose East Village flat is filled to the ceiling with grimy bales of newspaper, all destined to be cross-indexed and given to a university in Warsaw; Dulcie Kraft, a Texas scientologist; Beamer, a novelist writing a book about morning sickness, "privately printed and sent only to monasteries"; Orville, a pot dealer and "passing student of Eastern cosmic consciousness...
...adapt to the surroundings," he reports. "I spend part of the day splitting firewood; it is satisfying work. I keep thinking about that beautiful lake a mile away that my guide has told me about, where I can watch the animals watering and hear the cry of the loon. Finally, I decide to stroll to the lake in the chill clear air of the evening, deliberately leaving my rifle in the cabin...