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Bacon's figures, in their blurred, spastic postures, relate to the work of early still photographers like Eadweard Muybridge, or art reproductions, movie stills, news flashes. Personality, existence itself, glints like a fish in dark water and is gone. Bacon is a singular draftsman, but his drawing has practically no descriptive function-it serves, instead, to tally a sum of distortions...
Skirting Bankruptcy. All the familiar ills of the city play a part in the decisions to move: the housing shortage, spastic transit facilities, increasing air pollution, drug addiction, burglaries and muggings, low-caliber public schools, public-be-damned municipal employees. Probably the most common complaint is the astronomical (and still soaring) cost of living and doing business in Manhattan. Almost everything is more expensive than anywhere else in the U.S.: rents, land, labor, taxes, meals, entertainment and even some forms of genteel bribery. The Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates that living in the New York City area costs executives...
...music whose thumping, unrelenting rhythm is almost impossible to resist. The film's four-track stereo sound makes the theater throb, and the camera captures Cocker's famous, frenzied delivery-holy man seized by a vision, sweating, growling, rolling his eyes and moving in great bursts of spastic energy. By contrast Russell surveys the scene with an almost glacial cool as he strums an electric guitar or pounds what remains one of the cleverest rock pianos in listening distance...
...three novellas comprising The Watcher, all of which predate Cosmicomics, Peter Pan is grounded. This earlier Calvino may not have been quite ready for a tragic mask, but his wink is closer to a tic and his grin is spastic. The title story unwinds like an old Vittorio De Sica film in slow motion. A member of the Communist Party, Amerigo Ormea is assigned to be an election watcher at the Cottolengo Hospital for Incurables in Turin. As Amerigo officiously keeps the morons and vegetable cases from being recorded as Christian Democrat votes, Calvino demonstrates ironically that the Catholic Church...
...Jose incident before a throng of screaming Orange County supporters. The Republican party bought television time that night to broadcast the address-and it was as good a show as any late-night horror film. His eyes rolling around in his skull, his hands chopping the air in shaky spastic motions, the President asked the nation to draw the line against those who condone and excuse violence...