Word: magnon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some plays are the comic books of the theater. All of their characters are caricatures. Their situations have the labeled banality of canned clichés. The dialogue is Cro-Magnon English. In scene after scene the ludicrous and the dreadful intersect at some flash point where the playgoer's ribs collapse in implausible laughter...
...reporter turning up at one of her lectures at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History noted that the speaker somehow managed to discuss museums, stones, stuffed birds, cave paintings, Cro-Magnon man, children, parents, grandparents, dinosaurs, whales, the possibility of life in outer space, education, the youth revolution of the 1960s, the oneness of the human species, pollution, evolution, growing up in New Guinea, relations between the sexes, communes and the fragmentation of communities...
...after shunning her roomates cynicism, Deb joins in lament and tooth-grinding agony after her own love affair with Danny. Like Debbie, Danny merges character and cro-magnon consciousness with Bernie (who thinks all women should be wrung like lemons and then "dropped like a fucking hot potato"). But enough of this soap opera...
...with their exaggerated sexual features? What role did the great cave paintings play in the lives of those ancient people? Whatever the answers, it is clear the art is exceptionally complex, more than simple "hunting magic," as some turn-of-the-century scholars thought. Every indication is that Cro-Magnon man was deeply involved in rituals, ceremonies, myths, perhaps even a kind of religion...
...scribbling on cave walls and even on some artifacts may actually represent many different symbol systems. These could have been used to record the passage of the seasons and astronomical observations and to indicate periods of rituals and ceremonies. If these controversial yet hardly dismissable ideas are correct, Cro-Magnon man may well have been experimenting with the precursors of writing, arithmetic, calendar making and other "civilized" skills...