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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designed to be a grand old show. It's not just Cecil B. parting the Red Sea anymore--there's television's stamina to beat now--blatant images in a box day after day, 24-hour love, hate, anger and pain in a thousand ways. So you give the audience a strange brain (a devil-possessor)--lobotomize 'em. Or you carry them to a strange environment (perhaps trash the one you've got and see how they run)--show 'em anything can happen. This insertion of the berserk is perceived as brutal realism...
...rally in Lisbon's bullring. Scares declared pointedly, "We want to construct a socialist society in Portugal with respect for liberty, not copied after foreign models - neither Russian nor Swedish nor Chinese but Portuguese." And at another rally, in Coimbra, he told several thousand followers, "The people have a right to know if an authentic democracy is to be established; or is it to turn into a dictatorship...
...corpus may detect a slight twice-breathed air here, as well as in "Nostasia in Asia," the five-part piece that concludes the collection. Some of the ground and most of the mock dudgeon are reminiscent of Westward Ha! (1948). That magnificent Middle Eastern curse, "May you live a thousand years and a trolley car grow in your stomach annually!" appeared at least once before in The Rising Gorge...
...jubilee tradition was discontinued after 1969 because the council that year went several thousand dollars in debt, Albert said...
...time art scene is made up of only a few thousand people--artists, wealthy collectors and critics--then the people who write about it, the high priests of culture, can have an enormous impact. What people are getting out of art is not enjoyment of art but the thrill of being where the intellectual and cultural avant-garde is. The whole scene has built upon itself, because it depends on change and even more on the deliberate strangeness of the art--only the truly enlightened can appreciate it. No philistine would ever buy an Ad Reinhardt painting...