Word: randomly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...camera. Surrealist not in the banal sense of resembling a landscape with melting watches, but in its representations- by definition disconnected, scattered and disturbing. The landscape of photographic images is to the modern eye what the flea market was to the sur realists 50 years ago - an endless, random repository, a disorderly world parallel to the real one, stuffed with the pathos of nostalgia and secret messages about social organization. Photography, in this sense, is rather like Borges' "Aleph": it contains every possibility and no resolutions, but everything in it is equally interesting. And so, in a funamental...
...user in California walked into a house that he had picked at random, killed a baby and stabbed a pregnant woman in the stomach. Under influence of the drug, a man in San Jose, Calif., tore out both his eyes with his bare hands. In the Chicago area, more than a dozen cases of drownings have been attributed to PCP use: victims lose a sense of direction and space and cannot fight their way out of the water...
...Whose new paperback, Where to Eat in America (Random House; $5.95), is the most valuable coast-to-coast gustatory guide ever published in this country...
...Food of France by Waverley Root (Knopf; $15 hardcover; Random House; $5.95 paper). The authoritative guide to the subject in any language...
...Eating by M.F.K. Fisher (Random Vintage; $5.95 paper). Few people have written about the subject with greater gusto and poesy than this California woman who has become a cult figure among gastronomes...