Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...myth like those Pollock became. Painting has grown more varied since those days, and its leadership has spread out among a number of men and movements. But most importantly, the kind of abstraction which Pollock was instrumental in starting produces paintings before which even the painter himself seems a stranger...
...Mexican border is a great divide. Below it, the accumulated structures of Western "rationality" waver and plunge. The familiar shapes of society ? landlord and peasant, priest and politician ? are laid over a stranger ground, the occult Mexico, with its brujos and carismaticos, its sorcerers and diviners. Some of their practices go back 2,000 and 3,000 years to the peyote and mush room and morning-glory cults of the ancient Aztecs and Toltecs. Four centuries of Catholic repression in the name of faith and reason have reduced the old ways to a subculture, ridiculed and persecuted...
...examines magazines devoted to trivia, recalling the names of Tarzan's co-stars and the Lone Ranger's genealogy. He sees ads for Buster Keaton festivals and even for Ozymandian musicals like Grease, celebrating the vanished glories of '50s rock 'n' roll. The stranger pushes on; nostalgia-at preposterous prices-peers at him from shop windows. Fashion bends backward with shaped suits and long skirts, wide-brimmed hats, ubiquitous denims and saddle shoes. He has, alas, missed miniskirts and hot pants. He is just in time to see almost all women in long pants. Well...
...Teachings of Don Juan, as an anthropology student investigating the use of medicinal plants by Indians. Under the guidance of the aged Don Juan, Castaneda's experiments with hallucinogenic plants initiated him into a world of "nonordinary reality." In his second book, A Separate Reality, Castaneda witnessed even stranger miracles which could not be explained simply by the use of psychoactive substances. The strain of two contradictory realities briefly put Castaneda in a mental hospital...
...experience," South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu declared recently, referring to the 1954 Geneva agreement, "we cannot rely too much on international treaties, for the Communists do not respect them. Nor can we rely too much on the International Control Commission." More pointedly he advised his countrymen: "If a stranger enters your village, shoot him in the head...