Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kitchen, pins and needles from the sewing box, mirrors and broken glass from a chandelier. These perilous playthings metamorphosed themselves in his mind into icons against the savage man-made destruction outside. Today Lucas Samaras continues to craft them into prickly, disturbing drawings and assemblages. They suggest that pain and anguish lurk in the commonest household object, yet at the same time they glitter with a prideful...
...could hope to match the direct simplicity of their response to the tragedy that surrounds them. Best of all is Marc Pico, a young French documentary-film director making his debut as an actor. I He does not so much play Antonio as become him, reflecting with puzzlement and pain the bitter reality of a man who sees himself turning slowly into an imprisoned object...
...anytime you feel the pain...
Solipsist. Such statements suggest that Ionesco has turned his malaise into an esthetic principle. "Pain, grief, failure, have always seemed to me truer than success or pleasure," he says. It is this principle that leads him to so much disjointed and self-pitying maundering. As a devout solipsist, he feels that the answer to his despair must come from within himself. As an obsessed truth seeker, however, he will be satisfied with nothing less than some externally produced revelation. Alcohol and Martin Buber's transcendant optimism provide only temporary relief...
...prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dun geon," he says, "and they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look ing at 36, sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck. Though he is not an ex-con himself, his empathy with jailbirds is a natural extension of the at titude expressed in his songs, that life both in and out of prison is a kind of sentence to be served...