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...Woman of a Thousand Fires" by Chick Stand is the most poetic and difficult to understand. It requires the viewer to have some prior knowledge of its subject, and that knowledge is hard to come by: the topic is the repetitive and ritualized daily tasks of Latin American women. Images of a woman trapped, seeking freedom, swinging a chicken madly around in circles, cutting its entrails out, require more than one viewing, even though the first may keep the viewer trapped for some time...
...corpse" of Corpse and Mirror alludes to a surrealist game like "consequences," in which a piece of folded paper was passed around, with each player adding a section of drawing to the unseen one before. The game produced weird and poetic monsters on paper. Johns' interest is only in the folds: the hatchings repeat, mirror and reverse one another. It is only a formal device and, compared with what one has learned to expect from the earlier Johns, it is a weak raison...
Thomas apparently lived in the classic certitude that personal charm and poetic gifts entitled him to special treatment. "There is no necessity for the artist to do anything. There is no necessity. He is a law unto himself, and his greatness or smallness rises or falls by that," he wrote to his girl friend Pamela Hansford Johnson. Pamela went on to write successful novels and marry C.P. Snow. Thomas went on to craft melodic verse and marry Caitlin Macnamara, a former playmate of Augustus John's. She was, said a London acquaintance, "like the figurehead of a ship...
This $8 million epic, Bertolucci's first effort since Last Tango in Paris, is a fabulous wreck. Abundantly flawed, maddeningly simpleminded, 1900 nonetheless possesses more brute poetic force than any other film since Coppola's similarly operatic Godfather II. If Bertolucci irritates as much as he dazzles, he never bores: his extravagant failure has greater staying power than most other directors' triumphs...
...poetic irony is exquisite. Harvard W. Stephens seems an incredibly unlikely name for an individual who has steadfastly refused to accept Harvard University on its own ivory tower terms during an undergraduate career that has spanned nine years...