Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next he began picking up objects and juxtaposing them with the painted canvas. His use of the object can be seen as something of a contemporary parallel to the 19th century American still-life painters Peto and Harnett, who in their trompe-ľoeil arrangements of everydayobjects anticipated many of the same concerns that preoccupied the new realists of the 1960s. One Dine's most successful "combines" is a 1962 work in which an actual lawnmower is mounted in front of the canvas. Green paint clings to the blades like bits of fresh-cut grass, while the handle guides...
Tsoucalas says that the coup was made possible because the Army had become a parallel state. This was especially true during World War II when the British officially tolerated and condoned the para-military activities of right-wing extremist groups (General Grivas' "X" organization, for example) which put down the National Liberation Front (EAM), the Communist-dominated coalition against the Germans. While these right-wing groups, many of them former collaborationists, carried out British policy, Churchill set up a parliament under George Papandreou. Tsoucalas argues that this "double structure of power, democratic in the political facade but Royalist-fascist...
...dynasty in the late '60's, as seen by Kramer, a then recently-retired Packer lineman and kicking specialist. I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow recounts the embryonic construction of another dynasty, as seen by one of its creator. And Schaap falls easily into the trap of using a parallel style for the latter...
LANG'S FIRST American masterpiece begins peacefully and proceeds in catch its protagonists in parallel mechanisms external situation and internal drive. Its Joe Doe hero (Spencer Tracy) is mistakenly jailed as a kidnapper by a small-town sheriff. The local hicks get wind of his arrest and through hatred, greed, and xenophobia storm the jail to lynch...
...simply puts two rooms onstage, furnishes them identically with a bed, a chair and a wait ing woman, and brings their men to them defying the curfew. "I had given up hope," each woman says, and from there the dialogues of loving, reassuring cliches go on in strict musical parallel, words and acts in either room echoing within moments in the other...