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...opportunity came with the Pop movement in the early '60s. His contribution was the image taken from advertising or tabloid journalism: grainy, immediate, a slice of unexplained life half-registered over and over, full of slippages and visual stutters. Marilyn Monroe repeated 50 times, 200 Campbell's soup cans, a canvas filled edge to edge with effigies of Liz, Jackie, dollar bills or Elvis. Absurd though these pictures looked at first, Warhol's fixation on repetition and glut emerged as the most powerful statement ever made by an American artist on the subject of a consumer economy. The cranking...
Roommates and visiting friends are another source of troublesome entertainment from the other side of the counter. If there's more than one friend visiting, a competition immediately starts to see who can make me screw up first. Once, distracted by a shouting friend, I let the blender slice into the cup I was holding. Half-churned vanilla and shredded paper spewed across the service area, covering me and my customer with sticky blobs...
...steel plants and lay off about 4,000 of its 22,000 active steelworkers. Something of a storm was stirred up last week when the New York Times reported that CBS, which has already pruned some 1,200 of its 15,500 employees, would ask its news division to slice $50 million from its $300 million budget. That draconian figure was denied by Chief Executive Officer Laurence Tisch, but the company admitted that it was still looking for ways to improve efficiency. Hundreds of other large corporations are planning or already carrying out slimming-down programs, including Exxon, Union Carbide...
Like any good exploitation picture, From Beyond doesn't quite live down to its promotion. And like many a horror movie touted by the hip critical fringe, it falls just short of delivering on its artistic promises. Director Stuart Gordon has fun trying to slice it both ways, though. Fleshing out a story by Horror Aesthete H.P. Lovecraft, Gordon finds florid visual correlatives for Lovecraft's eldritch prose, then adds a heavy dose of '80s psychosexuality. One messy kiss from the late Dr. Pretorious (Ted Sorel), and a cool blond psychiatrist (Barbara Crampton) gets tarted up in dominatrix leather...
...places that make you squirm, places you'd rather not talk about, but nevertheless he grabs you and WHAM! That's why his writing is so good even when it's dealing with the most ridiculous of subjects: he knows you, knows your culture, knows where to slice and to squeeze...