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...named Visa and MasterCharge, a misplaced Mormon, an abandoned rabbi, an African dictator, a welfare mother in double- digit pregnancies, a sniper, a man assembling a Chevy Nova in his living room, a 400-lb. dope dealer with an M.B.A., a family of Cambodians trying to farm their floorboards, mythic creatures known as the Nordic Ice Queen and the Madonna of Heat, and two ex-dancers who sell Tupperware...
...speaks in a tongue Will Shakespeare would not have recognized, inhabits a landscape unknown to the Bard, that of 16th century Japan. And Goneril, Regan and Cordelia are here men called Taro, Jiro and Saburo. We are obviously far from the place of this tragic tale's mythic birth and noble retelling, and we are far from the inert reverence of the typical movie adaptation of a classic. Indeed, in Ran (which means "chaos" in Japanese) we venture into a territory where the very word adaptation distorts and diminishes both intention and accomplishment. For what Akira Kurosawa has done...
Graves' vigor and longevity made a shambles of all convenient categories, just as his flamboyant personality came to seem almost mythic. His favorite form of conversation was the extended monologue. Savagely contemptuous when crossed, he could be surprisingly meek and gentle with friends. He also worked tirelessly. "Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion," he wrote in 1948, but he never expected this love to pay his bills. They were often considerable. Graves married twice and had eight children. He also spent more than a decade, between wives, with the American poet Laura Riding...
...exhibition leaves the kind of hole one would expect a huge radioactive hot potato to make when dropped. It is the concealed background against which the achievements of Beuys and Kiefer have to be seen, since a large part of their work is an attempt to address the older, mythic imagery of German romanticism, which the Nazis appropriated and corrupted. Unless we grasp the ways in which Hitler's culture took over a large part of the inherited content of expressionism--its obsession with the mystical, the vast, the unconsciously collective and the charismatic, and its magnification of an inbuilt...
...Seeing Signs," initiates one into the underworld of hidden meanings, exposing the rampant process of fabrication in which symbols are manipulated to guide mass ideology. In "Strategies of Lying," Umberto Eco performs a structural operation to demonstrate how Nixon's image-making speeches were variations on the same mythic elements composing Little Red Riding Hood. Michel de Certeau's "The Jabbering, of Social Life" reduces politics to a social organ polluting the environment with mindless dogma. The heralding of the Reagan Age is also blamed on a carefully-devised strategy of ignorance that is not without its humor...