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...important cohering force and part of the emotional message. If D. A. Pennebaker's film on Dylan is any indication of the way he walks around thinking and talking (and I think it's close enough), then Dylan's mind is always popping with the same kind of surreal and often religious imagery that he strings together in his songs. And his desire to find out only what's true and his rabid hate for cant are sincere. The message is that Dylan's a bookish intellectual who thinks to melodies and casts his ideas in scenes. The message...
...apparent. The photographic vision depicts a reality very different from life's reality. Time is frozen in a photograph; continuous in life. The experience of photography involves only one sense; the experience of life involves all. Such differences between photographic reality and actual reality lead Sontag to conclude that "surrealism is at the heart of the photographic enterprise"--not in the sense of the glib, self-conscious surrealism of one branch of photography, but in the very activity of presenting a reality of a very different order from conventional reality, a reality apprehended through a different scheme of time...
...Ibar suspension cables apparently came-at ten minutes to 5 p.m.-on the upriver, Ohio side. To Dick Kuhn, 18, a gas-station attendant, it sounded like a shotgun volley: "I thought some nuts were dusting ducks under the bridge." Then the upstream side of the roadway tilted in surreal slow motion, spilling sparks from a parted power cable into the dusk and an estimated 60 vehicles onto the weedgrown riverbank and into the 6-m.p.h. current beneath. "It looked like a snake wiggling across the water," one witness exclaimed. Said another: "The bridge just keeled over, starting slowly...
Symbols & Substance. Since Albee is a playwright of the surreal, the coincidence of the wives' being call girls is not particularly damaging. But the husbands' casual murder of a drunken neighbor who discovers their illicit secret is less acceptable; it seems an excessively melodramatic device for making the point that the corruption of values means death...
...Oscar nomination. Lester was then given a couple of low-budget potboilers to direct, and moved out into daylight with the two Beatles' extravaganzas, which gave the impression of being acted on flying trapezes and established Lester's image as the blithe spirit of the surreal. They also made his fame. "When I lie dying," he says, "the Evening Standard will headline BEATLES' DIRECTOR IN DEATH DRAMA, but I don't mind...