Word: objective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after excavators began blasting into the ground to prepare the way for construction of a new 28-story bank building in downtown Nashville two years ago, a sharp-eyed workman spotted something strange in the limestone debris-an ivory-colored, banana-shaped object that looked like a miniature elephant tusk. Bank officials, hearing of the odd discovery, quickly called in an amateur archaeologist, Robert Ferguson, who immediately recognized the find. It was a fossilized fang from a saber-toothed tiger, an extinct, ferocious-looking creature that once stalked wide areas of the Americas...
...find out how he lives or even where he lives. Once in a while, he'll slap his girl Billie around but this doesn't seem to fit in with Dillinger's character, and because Billie takes it so obligingly we are not moved. Billie is a vacuous sex-object. Without literal or figurative dimensions, she is unlike the tough-bitch gun molls of the '30s and '40s. In White Heat, Cody Jarret's wife cheats on him, lies to him, and fears him. She is real. In one scene of Dillinger, Billie goes so far as to slap...
...Hireling. British class war in a limousine. Robert Shaw is the chauffeur, and Sarah Miles is Lady Franklin, the cultured English lady who is the object of his desires. Shared the Cannes 1973 Best Film Award, but it is often dull stuff, with overplayed melodrama. Abbey...
...false, final truth non-existent, morality but a plague produced by the intelligence, art meaningless. Duchamp's bottle rack read "art is junk" and his urinal "art is a trick." Nothing was real or true except the individual pursuing his whim, the artist bestriding his Dada. Dada overturned any object, mocked it and displaced it as an experiment in apprehending it. Yet beneath the Dadaist irony lay a desperate protest. Dada was an act of rebellion against a world believed left in mad hands, a completely mad world. Dada was a labor of destruction and negation to liberate...
Some spectators object to the play's negativism and strong language. One woman at a recent performance in Cape Girardeau, Mo. (pop. 32,700), was offended by the long underwear. "At least," she bristled, "the girl could have worn a frilly dress." The company has had to modify Stump Removal by chastening its sex scenes and toning down a few lines-"the cheapest whorehouse in town" has become "the cheapest dance hall in town." But Dawkins believes most audiences sympathize with the play's "rejection and overthrow of oppressive authority...