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...14th century English troubadourian vision, the Land of Cockaigne was inhabited by precooked "larks well-trained and very couth who cometh down to man his mouth." The larks were eaten by hooded monks, who prayed through psychedelic church windows that "turn themselves to crystal bright." A new U.S. postage stamp of Thoreau, designed by Painter Leonard Baskin, was under fire last week on the ground that it makes bearded, long-haired Henry David look like a hippie...
...fighting each other on a pyramid-like peak to be come. "King of the Hill." Kane's wittiest photography shows a contest of shadow tag seen from above. The children's heads are tiny, their shadows elongated and spidery, as the boy who is "it" proceeds to stamp them out, one by one. As his black sneaker hovers over the shadows, it seems like some malevolent predator, creating the mixed sense of excitement and dread that attends children at play...
...Aldredge is the talkative Gratiano. In the Trial Scene, when the tables are turned on Shylock, Gratiano indulges in not just the usual sarcasm; he positively relishes the chance to stamp on Shylock when he's down. Shakespeare contented himself with telling us that Shylock has oft been spat upon. Here, at Shylock's last exit, we actually see Gratiano (ironic name!) spit upon the Jew-- just as, in an earlier scene, we are treated to the spectacle of seeing his fellow Jew, Tubal spat...
...lyric is a mildly defensive warning to an errant lover that "one of these days, these boots are going to walk all over you." In Czechoslovakia, it has become the confession of a masochist: "These boots trample on everything beautiful/I live alone thanks to these boots/With these boots I stamp our love/They are taking their own revenge/I am stamping on my own happiness...
...diffuse. Big capitalists and bankers have lost influence because the typical corporation generates its own funds and does not need to borrow so much. The corporation has also become so bafflingly complex that even the chief executive is often little more than a symbol, a cheerleader and a rubber stamp for decisions that eventually work their way up through labyrinthine committees. And there is where the power lies...