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...agent of imperialism has been run to earth in Red China, and this one had infiltrated the very heart of the state security apparatus. The story, as related by the party paper Wen Hui Pao, revolves around Lo Jui-ching, Mao's purged Minister of Public Security, and Sherlock Holmes, that "watchdog of the British bourgeoisie." Lowly Lo was so hooked on Holmes he instructed his agents to emulate Sherlock's "special abilities of detection, to do cloak-and-dagger and high-class special work, to live in unusual circumstances and to be exceptional men different from...
...challenge only the grading that relegates the Master Sherlock Holmes to Straight City, after running him, blasphemously and preposterously, with Charlie Chan, who gets into Valhalla. Chan, an amusing charlatan, should have been paired with Mr. Moto, and that correct company could well sustain your preference. But Holmes should be paired either with Dr. Watson or Conan Doyle (proving again that the creature can be greater than the creator); in any case, to make this correct evaluation is to place Sherlock Holmes automatically into the "Yes" column. If you placed Conan Doyle beside Edgar Allan Poe, then certainly Doyle would...
Charlie Chan Sherlock Holmes...
...guiltily from the Avatar man too. Momentary pause, the Square beckons, an elderly Japanese gentleman in a grey Sherlock Holmes hat jostles freely and the parade swirls again. A passing van swallows its music splashing choice bits benignly at you so you don't feel left out. "Come on without/ Come on within/ You'll not see nothing like...(grateful to the Great Commercial Prophet holed up in New York, fill in the blanks)...the Mighty Quinn...
Most festivalgoers begin their tour of events with a visit to the Albright-Knox's "Plus by Minus," a title that the show's organizer, Douglas MacAgy, amplifies on by citing Sherlock Holmes: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." For the first 20th century abstract artists, the impossible was "the accreted imagery that has been a characteristic of visual art ever since the Renaissance." First to jettison traditional images altogether, as MacAgy shows, was the Russian suprematist Kasimir Malevich, with his revolutionary 1913 drawings of two squares and a circle...