Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inner reality. Allan Felix in Play It Again, Sam is haunted by the specter of Bogart--when his wife leaves him, he can only ask himself what Bogey would have done. Bogey would have mended himself with the aid of a little bourbon and soda. But, Allen reflects, if he himself has "one thimbleful of bourbon, I run out and get tattoed...
...perhaps the blackest of apocalyptic humor. It is one of those films, and there are few others, where every line seems just right. And quotable. "You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company for that," Col. "Bat" Guano tells Mandrake as he shoots open a soda machine in order to get enough change to call the W hite House. General Ripper's discussion of Purity of Essence ranks with the great madnesses of all time. George C. Scott's portrayal of Buck Turgidson is far better than his Patton. Best of all, Peter Sellers managed...
...ticket puncher recommends two pornographic films, The Devil in Miss Jones, and The White Rainbow, but she's generally in-different to movies. I leave her mixing and downing endless shots of soda and worcestershire sauce in the uppermost of a stack of miniature paper cups. She gets a kick out of the way it fizzes. Lawrence Welk flickers on the T.V. set in her booth...
Aesthetic sense demands ironic distance, be it geographic or in time, because what is unconsciously accepted is often also what is most beautiful. This is not a sociological justification of Lichtenstein; although his blow up paintings of comic-book panels, sandwiches and soda-pop, is as lucid and incisive a reflection of American life as any contemporary art. And portrayal of the culture of its origin remains a justification of art. But Lichtenstein's work stands up on its own in purely sensual terms, and also in formal aesthetic terms...
...reality, symbol and representation. Even though we know that the comic-book characters in his paintings are charicatures, the sentiments depicted by the disembodied panels are so overwhelming that we cannot help but participate in the drama. Even though we know that the painting of a sandwich and soda pop is schematic and does not even attempt traditional modelling and shading, our first reaction that it does represent the object is so powerful and so instantaneous that it almost actually becomes the subject...