Word: sunsets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effort to get art out of the cult of the unique, ownable object, and away from an art market whose dealings he sees as mere fetish mongering. He wants to change art into a system of total environments, which can be enjoyed but never possessed-as a sunset is unpossessed. "I want to make art as monumental as nature," he says. His sculptures are meant to exist on equal terms with Pittsburgh's buildings, bridges and night...
...WHICH, to use Mr. Jiveass Nigger's expression, is cool. Very, very cool. The hero, George Washington, can now walk off into the sunset, feeling very beautiful inside, knowing he can make it on his own terms and tell the white world to go sit on its own white ass. The author, however, has seen to it that the reader is not left in quite so secure a position. He has made quite sure that you never know where you stand in relation to the book; although one minute you may be laughing with him at all the jive...
...castout boy soon realized she had to give him up for lost, the blond girl who overreached in a single day light clambered down a 1600 foot escarpment. She learned. She discovered Ada was right, and paid the price. She ended up face down in a ravine at sunset, belly aching and self broken open and bleeding red and sweet like a pomegranate. When Merilee crashed at the bottom of a nameless and uncharted pit, she was too gone to be afraid of the snakes and scorpions who came to view her Gulliverian hugeness, too exhausted to make...
...manager of a moving company that at least half of the people who moved in 1969 were overcharged. Similarly, the commission disregarded travelers' interests by "presiding over the funeral" of the passenger train. When three Southwestern states protested the downgrading of service on the Southern Pacific's Sunset Limited, the commission mulled over the question for 41 months, then decided, against the judgment of most outside experts, that it had no power to do anything...
...response to the desert is that it is dead, i. e. safe, and his irrational behavior chains him to the past-the illogical first third of the film. When Daria drives out of frame at the end of Zabriskie Point, the camera pans to a lurid and apocalyptic sunset which nonetheless represents a kind of natural order; it is identical to the sunset painted on a Bank of America billboard Mark walks vainly toward (in distance-flattening telephoto close shot) early in the film. The difference in their destinies is stated in the parallel...