Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist (played by a grimly floundering Jon Voight) mounts a one-man crusade to avenge that death. But after allowing himself to be beaten up, employed by Israeli intelligence, threatened with quick extinction by murderous closet Nazis, and finally pushed under the wheels of an oncoming train, it becomes hard to believe that it is only the romance of investigative reporting that is driving him drearily on. In comparison to Voight's unswerving dedication, Beatty's mania seems just about as workaday as a deskman collecting box scores from the local high schools...
With other artists in the show, low energy slides into mere inconsequence. Their work is elaborately hermetic, and so looks like a manifesto. But what is being manifested? Manual labor, apparently-endless somnambulistic notations, proffering not a whit of meaning. One could possibly train ants to do it. Thus the German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, 33, has assembled two huge panels, each made of several hundred sheets of paper scrawled with words-strings of unrelated numbers, written out in German. This arithmorrhea, she assures the catalogue reader, has nothing to do with mathematics. Nor, apparently, is it meant...
...American innocent leads them quickly to a scarred and diabolic German. Holmes realizes that the fate of Europe hangs in the balance, as the evil man is scheming to take over the largest munitions factory on the continent. Holmes and Freud are reduced to primitive stokers during a dynamic train chase to the Bavarian border where the story climaxes...
...AUTHOR is--the aging Watson or the youthful Meyer--he has created this tale out of the stuff of the traditional Holmes canon in a brilliant and startling fashion. The Reichenbach Falls death-struggle of the Final Problem has been elevated here to a hellish showdown above a train careening through the Bavarian mountainscape. The Moriarty mystique has been defused until it becomes simply Holmes's refracted trauma at having discovered two skeletons in his father's closet. And the story, with its pivotal heroine, its deferentially anonymous references to European nobility, its global crisis in the offing, and even...
...something more deeply-rooted. They say it is a desire to please, a desire not to make trouble, and most of all a total unwillingness to acknowledge what these exchanges, or non-exchanges, really mean: that an unattached woman in the street, in a bar, or on a train, is fair game...