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stayed behind is not yet relic or antique or previous...
...giant redwood tree, which grows only in the foggy climes of Northern California and Oregon, is one of the world's oldest and largest plants. Yet it is more than a plant and more than a relic. With huge trunks soaring hundreds of feet into the sky, a forest of Sequoia sempervirens is a life unto itself, binding a despoiled planet to its pristine past. As California Naturalist Duncan McDuffie said: "To enter a grove of redwoods is to step within the portals of a cathedral more beautiful and more serene than any erected by the hands...
...latest work, Samaras has in effect dismantled the reliquary. He has ranged twelve or 18 mutants of the same relic-for example, a knife-in a clear Plexiglas case, calling the group "transformations." At the same time, he has not entirely abandoned books and boxes. Painted cutout silhouettes of the latter hang in their own black frames, subtly suggesting the ax about to fall. A curiously shaped book, its ten pages cut in lacy patterns and stippled with rainbow dots, contains Samaras' own moody, erotically Joycean fantasies (even Grove Press, he claims, refused to print them). Samaras' most...
...killed himself. He was obsessed by the "spoliation of nature"-human and mineral-in the once aristocratic Philadelphia suburb where the family lives. Charley, idle and lonely, powerfully infected by his father's preoccupation with decay, conceives a death wish of his own. A neighbor woman, an ancient relic of the town's past, wages a moral and psychological battle to exorcize it, finally succeeds by dying herself. But Charley lives on, haunted by the fear that he had really meant to kill...
...behind it. Despite the dancing eyes, the tireless smile, the bouncy spirit, the effusive greetings ("Well, bless your heart," "Thank you, thank you, thank you"), the man the Democratic Party has nominated for President of the U.S. is not to be dismissed simply as a glib, out-of-touch relic of a political era long past...