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...Reformation. After Luther's proposal that men could approach God directly by faith through grace, with no intermediaries, the angels were theologically unemployed. The gap they were meant to close had been written out of existence; they were reduced to mere attendant lords, thunderbolt carriers to swell a scene or two. Nineteenth century rationalism seemed to finish them off for good. The remark of a Victorian doctor, that he had never met the soul in a dissection, found its artistic parallel in Gustave Courbet...
...picture like Cataract III, the eye has no resting place. The viewer scans the inexorably waving lines with something akin to mounting panic, until the heaving surface can no longer be experienced as a flat plane. All that contradicts the eye's movement, and stabilizes it, is a swell of color intensity-turquoise and red coming out of gray and fading back again. The effect of such images is more akin to revelation than illusion, for it seems barely credible that so much energy could be contained in one pattern...
...solution for his anxieties something other than shooting down long-haired youths. So, needless to say, you despise him instead. I've read that in New York freaks frequently stand up at the end of the film and yell, "I'm going to kill you, Joe!" at the screen. Swell...
...solution for his anxieties something other than shooting down long-haired youths. So, needless to say, you despise him instead. I've read that in New York freaks frequently stand up at the end of the film and yell, "I'm going to kill you, Joe!" at the screen, Swell...
Lips pout, eyes smolder, bosoms and hips swell like baked goods with too much yeast. Clothes cannot contain these creatures-nor are they meant to. Bras and girdles, filmy negligees and deep-plunging necklines only point up the obvious, or pad out the underdeveloped until, literally, their cups runneth over. They are the antithesis of haute couture's slender subtleties, these fantasy models in the catalogues put out by Frederick's of Hollywood. They promise, in striking graphics, what any woman might achieve in styles by Frederick...