Word: primal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blue figures muck around at the messy crossroads of modern life, splashing around in paint to demonstrate chaos theory, attacking Twinkie's with power drills to re-examine such banalities as shrink-wrap, vacuuming the pathetic Christina out of Wyeth's "Christina's World." Frequent musical segments with deep primal bass lines and irregular-heartbeat drums overwhelm the audience in a purely sensory world, freeing them from the burden of too much thinking. Genteel Boston audiences have become devotees of the Blue Man Experience, tying on paper head-bands, singing along with electronic prompters and dancing in an in-house...
President Clinton offhandedly told a Houston campaign audience that he had raised taxes "too much" in his 1993 budget package. After gleeful Republicans pounced on the comment and fuming Democrats let out the political equivalent of a primal scream (many placed their careers on the line when they backed the President in 1993), Clinton retreated and said voting for that package had been "the right thing...
...Brando's talent and, of course, the sex, the film was a world-wide hit, despite one near-rape scene and the subjecting of the female interest (Maria Schneider) to various sexual whims. The sex scenes are all the more shocking for their lack of emotion and their primal immediacy which also surface in the frequently sexually explicit profanity. Yet the beauty and despair of certain scenes--from the opening shot of a subway roaring above a maddened Brando to his visit to his dead wife--makes one understand how the over wound coil of primitive emotion at the core...
...already in stores. The Seattle punk band Hole--whose leader, Courtney Love, is one of the best lyricists in rock (and the widow of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana)--has just come out with a CD titled Ask for It, featuring live material from the band's early days. The primal sound of punk, moreover, can be heard in the music of a growing number of pop acts, including the neofeminist caterwauling of Canadian diva Alanis Morissette and the unapologetically sloppy guitar riffs of the teenage Australian rock band Silverchair...
...Just Like My Father is a conflicted, primal and ultimately moving play about a woman's search for personal identity, through the lens of a macho male stereotype. Transcending the superficialities of sexual and political correctness, Shaw performs a personal yet objective piece about her journey to self-realization...