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...release-type pronouncements of his beliefs and theories on Art. His works are what is public. When they are complete Mirko "shoos them off like grown children." And he does not cherish favorites because "to love your own work very much is like to love yourself--it is sick, morbid...
Other sports had an equally rough time in the autumn of 1917. The CRIMSON found need to lend a somewhat morbid justification to the national pastime: "We are living in a period of universal sadness and a tonic like the World Series is a good thing. It is indeed a case of 'making merry, for tomorrow...
Greed's tempermental director Erich von Stroheim, known when acting as "the man you love to hate," consistently made films Paramount considered too long and too morbid. The Merry-Go-Round was taken away from him and completed by Rupert Julian (The Phantom of the Opera), and no one knows how much was shot by Stroheim; The Wedding March, originally almost four hours, was halved, the second half, Honey-moon, never released and probably non-existent...
...which dealt with the anguish of love, or depression, loneliness, and death produced big empty cliches of movement: contractions in the solar plexus, rolls to the floor, and tortured embracing of empty space (including the dancers' own heads). Using quivering feet and fingers spread in agony to express their morbid profundities the choreographers seldom planned expression for the whole body. Still preverbal, they were seldom able to express themselves in the real morphemes of the dance--movement and energy involving the whole body...
...these sections it's the same Beatles who mocked the businessman in A Hard Day's Night with "give us a kiss". Here and there, things are still fun; but everywhere else it's a violiny, morbid picture of the degrading lives that England's eggmen--everyone from the hippies to the cops to the worker in the corporation teashirt--are falling into...