Word: monolithism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of advanced sculpture, from Cubism to the welded-steel structures of David Smith and Anthony Caro, became, in effect, the history of construction. Of late, this has stiffened into dogma; almost any work can be made to seem regressive simply because it is a monolith (hence the decline of interest in Henry Moore). Still, the greatest single piece of recent American sculpture, Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk, is as monolithic as sculpture can get; and there are other signs of the rehabilitation of solid form. Among the most promising is the work of Clement Meadmore, most recently...
...appropriate juxtaposition. In The Games, Ryan O'Neal-Oliver in Love Story -plays a Yale distance runner who ends up collapsing into a concrete monolith during the Olympic marathon...
...each character: Andreas Winkleman has retreated into an emotional state of non-expression after being abandoned by his wife and lives alone in a small cottage, "a prison as much as a refuge." He soon meets Anna Fromm, a widow who has fantasized her late marriage into a monolith of Truth and Happiness, despite strong indications that she actually murdered her husband and child in a car crash. She has recovered and lives near Andreas with Eva and Elis Vergerus (Bibi Andersson and Erland Josephson). Eva has always felt rootless, meaningless, and useless, has remained childless. Her husband...
...great, absolutely fabulous, what's happening in the movies," he said. "The day of the Hollywood-made-and-controlled film is over. The day of the multi-million dollar monolith like Hello. Dolly is over. The only reason I'd make a movie in Hollywood is to make a picture about Hollywood, as it were- shot on location." He leaned over and laughed raucously, his eyes glowing mischievously at the prospect. "Seen All About Eve a lot?" he asked...
...successful strategy against the economic monolith will not result from secretive acts of terrorism, but from mass actions against corporations and the government to achieve economic and social gains. As it was, the bombing barely succeeded in closing IBM and Mobil for a day. A successful strike would close these firms and end war production until they had effected far-reaching changes in basic policy...