Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timing of the private letter to the President seemed odd, its contents were startling. The crisis created by the Soviet detention of American Journalist Nicholas Daniloff threatened to poison all negotiations between the nuclear superpowers. Yet in the midst of this impasse, here was Mikhail Gorbachev declaring not only that he still wanted to meet Ronald Reagan again but also that he wished to do so right away, before the two superpower leaders committed themselves to a full-dress summit conference...
...seemed odd, on first hearing of it, that Nicholas Daniloff would quote lines of poetry to mark his release from Soviet imprisonment. Here was an incident that filled the news for a month, that brought the world's two titans into open confrontation, that in the end, perhaps, prodded them to agree on the presummit summit. Yet to cap off those momentous political events, Daniloff, the center of the storm, reached back into art for a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written almost 150 years ago for another world and circumstance. Grant that it was more diplomatic of Daniloff to quote...
...Australian Outback he is a Tarzan of the Mates, quaffing a few beers before going off to hypnotize the odd buffalo or save a plucky American reporter (Linda Kozlowski) from the jaws of king croc. In the urban jungle of Manhattan he is as flummoxed as King Kong -- wary of escalators, bidets and soul-man handshakes -- but eager to buck the odds. It is The Gods Must Be Crazy in whiteface, and ingratiating enough to make Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) a man for all box offices. After topping E.T.'s record take in Australia, this shambling comedy (directed by Peter...
...their swamp-bound prison. The setting is just a convenient way for putting three strange people in the same room for a long time, just as Jarmusch did in his first film, Stranger than Paradise. In Paradise, the long pauses and spaced-out banality of the dialogue was so odd that it quickly became funny, similar to what might happen while watching 200 laundry detergent commercials in a row. Jarmusch dishes out more of the same in Law, only with a grittier locale and better camera work and acting...
...highlight of the exhibition is the installation/sales counter by the Canadian group General Idea, who seem to believe that there's no difference anymore between mass media and art anymore. The copies of their "FILE" magazine on display present a truly odd mixture of art and self-indulgence. See if you can find the Art-Deco poodles copulating in geometric precision...