Word: neos
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...said right off that, in America at least, Richter was easy to miss. Think the words "new German art," and you think "neo-Expressionism." Think that, and the heart sinks. Heftige malerei, the German critics used to call it, "heavyweight painting," and it was certainly crude enough for three drunken gnomes and a village woodcutter. Inch-thick paint (the stuff that used to mean "sincerity" in the 1980s, remember?) and sculptures mutilated from tree roots with chain saws. All this rhetoric, now so comic, had its equivalents in the States (think of Julian Schnabel and his pretensions), but Germany...
...wonders, "How urgent is the threat?" And, one might add, how does it compare with the others the U.S. is facing? To many observers, it's a stretch to link any attack on Iraq to the broader war on terrorism. By fostering more anti-American resentment, a long-term neo-colonial presence in Iraq could breed a new generation of suicide bombers ready to wreak havoc...
Danny himself now becomes a dead sea; no visible emotion roils his surface. He appears at first to have become a meth addict, but that's mere pretense. So is his work as a police informer. All his activities are secretly aimed at finding his wife's killers. His neo-noir trail is violent (particularly when he encounters Vincent D'Onofrio's deeply scary druglord) and, occasionally, rather disturbingly funny...
...surprising intricacy of the plotting of The Salton Sea, the self-conscious care with which director D.J. Caruso has composed it and the passionate intensity of its actors all signal a serious effort to break out of its neo-noir roots. At a time when it is hard to remember a big studio film that aspired to anything beyond the top spot at the box office on opening weekend, this kind of ambition is not to be casually dismissed...
...likely prompt a huge mobilization of centrist opinion of the left and right to negate that extremist sentiment by giving Chirac a huge margin of victory in the second round. But that won't reverse the fact that France has dispensed with a taboo here: They've got a neo-fascist into the second round of a presidential campaign, because enough French people are buying his message of law and order through curbing immigration...