Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schwitters was making a microcosm of Germany from its own waste products, and there was a bleakly ironical fate in store for the Merzbau: in 1943, an Allied bomb blew it to dust. But its implications, like the legacy of the rest of his work, could not be destroyed. "I know," Schwitters wrote, "that I am an important factor in the development of art and shall forever remain...
Middle-class ennui in a faltering social system is certainly an acceptable subject for a film, and even an imperfect treatment is far better than another commercial exploitation of the revolution. The subject, though, is too vague and ill-defined to be reduced to the microcosm of three lives. In his rambling, understated style, Cassavetes does stumble on moments of revelation-Archie not knowing what to say to his whore, Harry drinking tea in his London illusion, Gus coming home to his crying daughter. But he tries to make a great work out of understatement and understatement resists greatness...
...well as the risks" of the Viet Nam War. But South Korea's war revenues fell by more than 10% in 1970. In addition, the U.S. is bringing home nearly a third of the 64,000 troops stationed in South Korea. The effect can already be seen in microcosm in the town of Inchon. When the U.S.'s Camp Kaiser closed down there in November, 10,000 shopkeepers, taxi drivers and prostitutes were deprived of their prime source of income...
...football, then, the spectator sympathetically participates in a heightened form of existence. During the brief hours of the game he sees the base matter of everyday life lifted up, purified, clarified, intensified: idealized figures, stronger, swifter, more cunning than ordinary men, fight a bruising battle in a make-believe microcosm (the stadium as ideal universe). Football is a synthesis of illusion and reality. A good football game is real enough to involve the spectator, illusory enough to liberate him. It creates a series of what Sartre called "privileged moments" -a temporary and imaginary redemption...
Beyond its entertainment value, the book offers a remarkable glimpse into the personal lives of Arab multitudes, Arab attitudes toward justice, money and women become apparent as one microcosm of society applies its energies to Omar's dilemma. Thanks to the author's effortless narrative, the reader hurtles through an exotic world, not realizing until the end that he has been taken on a fascinating trip through the Arab mind...