Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cacophony of despair and misunderstanding that he believes America to be. But in Another Country this is projected on a wholly inadequate fictional frame: six characters in search of love and self-knowledge in a Dostoevskian substratum of Greenwich Village. Each has been chosen as a representative of melting-pot America. Negro Rufus Scott, a jazz musician from Harlem, has never been able to learn his identity as a man because he could never forget his identity as a Negro. His sister Ida battles the white world too, but ends by yielding to the love of her brother...
...them less boring." Katz's Washington is much like what any normally talented youngster might produce if asked to paint the father of his country. To set the stage for the Washington-Cornwallis dialogue, Katz made two cutout cups and saucers to sit alongside a real china coffee pot. When the dialogue is over, Washington returns to his own camp, organizes a raid on the enemy, then takes a nap and dreams of the time his father gave him an uprooted cherry tree for his birthday. The action here is illustrated by a cherry tree, a birthday cake...
...into the steel-lined pit of the hydraulic press, where it takes just 90 seconds to reduce a 1962 Cadillac to a cube 36 in. high, 24 in. long and 24 in. wide. The result is then cleaned, coated with a metal preservative, and shipped off to the melting pot...
...later, Sewell burns to death, and good old Thebes (Mich.) is saved. A blind newspaper editor pronounces an un-Grecian moral: "With mortals, as with cards, play the percentages; you may draw successfully to a straight of vice, but more frequently a full house of virtue will take the pot...
Last Year at Marienbad. A Gordian knot of cinema tied by two ingenious Frenchmen, Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet and Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour), which seems to make the pint-pot intellectuals feel like Alexanders...