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...Viet Nam, with its vocabulary of "dinks" and "loaches" (light observation helicopters). Glasser interweaves dual themes: the elaborate efficiency of the U.S. medical organization (98% of the wounded who make it to Japan survive) and the even more elaborate systems for killing, the insane ingenuity of war. Men mimic the machine's inventiveness. Pressed for high body counts-even given quotas-some units "buried their kills on the way out [on a mission] and dug them up again to be recounted...
...been adolescent; his second movie is puerile. Formless, artless, it is narcissistic but not introspective, psycho but not analytic-a shotgun wedding of R.D. Laing and the Late Show. Its basic idea is not unsound: a movie company shoots a western in the Andes; when it leaves, the peasants mimic the staged violence but cannot separate reality from fantasy...
...Catalyst. It is an honestly stated dilemma, for art is not science and cannot mimic its processes. But one aim of "Art and Technology" was to show that a feedback can occur, and that its very unpredictability can be stimulating. In this, the show is a revelation. And when it closes, it will have left behind one of the key documents in recent American art: the catalogue compiled by Maurice Tuchman in which all the ambitions, negotiations, blocks and frustrations involved in this immense project are set down, without fear or favor. "Art and Technology's" real importance...
...next scene, as Hermie prepares to visit his war bride, he is rehearsing lines like "Laughter becomes you" to get him through his embarrassment. His efforts to ape affectedly "adult" cultural pretenses are in direct contrast to those of modern movie audiences, where more often it seems the adults mimic the young...
...instance, in several sequences the Groove Tube camera plays cleverly with fingers that walk around like the Yellow Pages fingers; it follows them with close-up as they mimic perfectly the actions of a man meeting a woman on a stroll, in one sequence, and in another, they imitate a ballet dancer roaming over hills. In both sequences it's an interesting idea that is executed well-but Groove Tube's leering humor makes the first sequence depend on the appearance of a thumb between one pair of finger-legs and upon the inevitable seduction, while in the other sequence...