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...programmed geometries of Stella or Noland and to their opposites, the so-called "lyrical abstractionists." It is, to begin with, about specific images. A high-strung man, Johnson years ago and without drugs experienced what he refers to as a "spiritual crisis," accompanied by visions and hallucinations: vast primal shapes, cloudy or brilliantly lit, floating in deep space. "After that, I didn't paint for years...
Peckinpah is not making any easy comment about frontiers closing in and man losing his roots in nature and primal passions. He's pushed those themes to their furthest extremes before. Peckinpah here, for the first time, is able to treat all his characters without romanticization, with respectful distance, not close-up passion. He has come to a more nature viewpoint. What he decries is a country that can't prepare its men for the world they grow up in, stunting in youth the lives of those men and the face of the land they desecrate and the structures they...
...Thanks to the Supreme Court decision on capital punishment [July 10], we the people must provide free food, clothes, housing and medical care for creatures that have wriggled up out of earth's primal slime. Unless, as is likely, the parole boards turn them loose once again upon society...
...great, why doesn't it feel any better?'" She sought the answer at Esalen, the California group-therapy center shown in B. & C. & T. & A., where, after some hesitation, she joined a nude session in a tub. After that she tried primal therapy, a far-out treatment that induces the patient to reenact his infancy, including kicking and screaming. She still attends weekly group-therapy sessions...
...message. He had no time to empathize with the devil's henchman. So Beowulf's Grendel is beastly, God-cursed, a conventional scourge to man. Gardner's Grendel may look like a lump of earth with a hairy pelt, but (conveniently, yet convincingly) he throbs with primal rage, despair, collegiate idealism and existential inquiry. Gardner has also given him a gnawing sense of humor. "I have eaten several priests," Grendel reports. "They sit on the stomach like duck eggs...