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...edge of Uzbekistan with a few cotton farms scattered over the surrounding dust-blown desert. When Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989 after a demoralizing 10-year war, the last convoy crossed the Friendship Bridge over the Amu Darya river less than a kilometer to the south. In a surreal end to a ghastly invasion and failed occupation that cost 15,000 Soviet lives, the bedraggled column left behind the chaos of Afghanistan and its warring tribes to the sound of loudspeakers blasting out a pop song: I Just Called to Say I Love...
...director Martin Scorsese. Based on the true story of mid-20th century boxer Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull seeks to do more than simply recount events and re-interpret them; instead, it is rich with artistic adornments such as beautiful cinematography (especially in its stunningly real and yet eerily surreal depictions of boxing) and metaphor, as LaMotta’s almost masochistic willingness to take abuse in the ring in many ways reflects his self-destructive behavior in his real-life interpersonal relationships...
Remember--in art, sometimes, weird is good. (Words to that effect must have gone through Georges Braque's mind as he found his way into Cubism.) From that lucky accident, Cardiff got the idea for an artwork that would be a kind of surreal tour through the woods, one in which her stream-of-consciousness monologue would course idly through the trees. She offered cassettes to friends, who could play the tapes on a Walkman while they followed her path on a map. As she free associated and dreamed out loud, the trusty woods would be unsteadied...
Three weeks later, it?s all becoming even more surreal, if that?s possible. I am having urges to watch the original attack footage again, or look at photos of the towers burning, because I need to be reminded of what actually happened, now that this has become a fact of my life. I walk past that wall of Missing photos and messages outside Bellevue Hospital where I work every day, and am disturbed by having become almost immune to it. I wonder who decides whether to take it down, and how, and when that will happen...
...11th utterly destroyed the buffer that separated our most horrific and surreal imaginings from the realm of possibility. Our dark storyteller was given free reign in the world of the conceivable and, predictably, gas masks, Cipro and cell phones began flying off the shelves. And, imagining even more previously unimaginable images, the American public was loath to once again trudge down the jetway onto what they perceived as suicidal cruise missiles. Even now, the airline industry reports business around 40 percent lower than this time last year...