Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lauren Bacall is the pearl in a half-good, half-not-so-good oyster of a musical called Applause. Star quality is supposed to be indefinable, but Bacall helps to define it. Just as one does not have to search for Picasso's signature to recognize a Picasso, so Bacall's work bears the indelible marks of style and self. She owns the stage but wants the earth. A bundle of past struggles, future aspirations and present tensions, she is never in true repose. Her presence is a demand-a lot from others and even more from herself...
...stylized pieces bring the familiar tactics of confrontation to the chess board; as the game progresses, a paddy wagon may remove a hippie, and a guru may outmaneuver a tactical patrolman. The chess set, created by a local artist, Jackie Pearl, has one major drawback: only the Establishment can afford the check, mate. It costs...
...potency at the thighs of a gigantic black Venus, the viewer feels less a voyeur than an observer of some elemental sexual ritual brought intact from the beginning of the world. To be sure, between such moments, the film proves so personal that it amounts to solipsism. "The pearl," as the director once modestly observed, "is only the oyster's autobiography." Fellini Satyricon, at the end, may even be considered no more than an orgy of self-indulgence. But what a self! And what indulgence...
...Guards out to the farms to work off their frustrations. China remains a tense nation, but Vogel predicts events will move along paths laid down in the 1950's. The coming generation of Cantonese, he says, will slip back into the centralized system, almost as smoothly as the Pearl River slides past the Canton docks and into the South China...
...second half of the book, the drawing improves, while the writing deteriorates dramatically. The gadgets are still fine, but after 1941 the Rocket Rangers attack the Martians screaming "Remember Pearl Harbor!" The Martians acquire slanted eyes and say things like: "First aid she are injurious treating of occidental victim so he no recover before arrival of overtaker! Ichiban jozu...