Word: popping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue's visual problems are much easier to pinpoint than the literary ones. The drawings of David McClelland and James Rivaldo are gone, and they are a sore loss. Sam Vandam's caricature of Mayor Daley is properly Sorel-like, and his cartoons pop up throughout the issue, but it will be a while before he can match the bizarre beasties that crawled over McClelland's pages...
...also the nauseating stench of whale processing. The returns, though, made it all worthwhile. In a good year, Sandefjord's seamen earned more in six months than a landlubber could in a year. The other six months they spent working their gardens and painting their houses, until Sandefjord (pop. 6,000) gained a reputation as one of Scandinavia's prettiest towns...
Dali on Dali in (some) words and (many) pictures. Inevitably among those present: pre-pop Surrealist Dali, Prurient Dali, Renaissance Dali, and Dali, boy genius grown old. Also, on practically every page, Dali the pyrotechnician in paint, the most engaging, self-indulgent and talented decorator of his age. Appropriately wrapped, like candy, in gold tinfoil...
...past and minutely exposing the style of a swinger with inventive images that linger in the retina. Not all of the film works. Its sometimes derivative surface is equally indebted to Jean-Luc Godard and shampoo commercials. Even Edgar Guest would have been embarrassed by the lyrics that Pop Poet Rod McKuen composed to match his banal score. But Same makes his cast perform with the precision and refinement of a repertory company...
Doodles. And so, between Eliot and Pound, what began as a mere esthetic experiment-the mixing of time and place, vulgar anecdote and ancient legend, ethics and pop songs, classical gods and modern nonheroes-became a great work. A kind of miracle happened: the ferule of the teacher became the poet's magic wand...