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...looks around for a light. He flicks a convenient jet into the path of another airplane and casually lights the stogie from the crash. Eventually, the great green scaly three-mouthed mumbling monster God shows up for the final summing-up, sends Life and Death off to run another planet, and pronounces, "You're on your...
...Yesterday," he wrote to a friend in 1897, "I experienced a split consciousness where it seemed I was observing the earth from outside. I was in great empty space and saw the planets rolling quietly. After that it was difficult to come back to the trivia of everyday life . . ." The connection between such experiences-or hallucinations-and the airy spaces of his paintings, filled with rainbow arches and planet-like balls, is obvious. (He also liked to frequent the Paris Observatory.) Kupka's belief in binding energy-a theosophical equivalent of Dante's "Love which moves...
...suspected background of possible plenitude"--but that's another story). Even the Invisible Man, who lives in a hole in a basement lit by exactly 1369 light bulbs, cannot be allowed--as a valid literary invention and especially as a black man--to shirk the contradictions of the whole planet: let's say, the contradiction between the atomic war and the people's war. This demand isn't as finicky as it sounds. The precise form of his awareness isn't too important: "A vague anguish drifting from page to page is enough to demonstrate the existence of the bomb...
...long time and concerned student of international relations, I am confident that one big power, or even two, such as the United States and the Soviet Union, cannot rule our planet. And certainly the price Messrs. Ford and Kissinger are demanding the people of the United States pay for what they call peace in the Middle East is too high, even if it had a possibility of succeeding, which, in my considered judgment, it does not have...
Decline of Taste. A quarter of the paintings in the show and most of the craft objects-porcelain, lacquer, carvings, metalwork-were made after 1853, when Commodore Perry sailed into Edo Bay like some astronaut landing on an unvisited planet. This marked the beginning of Japan's cultural infatuation with things Western and, by no coincidence, of the decline of traditional Japanese taste. The aesthetic slippage of the Meiji period could not be more vividly illustrated than by the objects chosen for this show. To take an English simile, if Queen Elizabeth II authorized an exhibition from the royal...