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Charles Spencer Chaplin had risen from the darkest of London slums. His father was an alcoholic; his mother sewed blouses for 1½ pence each. Charlie's great character was a memory of that Dickensian experience, a waif in the tradition of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. Comedy derives from the Greek kōmos, a dance. And indeed, as The Tramp capered about with his unique sleight of foot, he created a choreography of the human condition. In classics like Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator, objects spoke out as never before: bread rolls became ballet...
This is "concerned" photography, with a twist; for though no living photographer is more obsessed with his subject than Beard, he works out the obsession at a calculated aesthetic distance. Usually that is imposed by the view from a light plane. The most effective images in his mortuary chapel to the elephant (an installation done with gloomy theatrical zest by Designer Marvin Israel) are all taken from above. The huddled corpses with torn mackintosh skin, their bones scattered, their tissues ravaged, are grotesque and pitiful. They are also perversely elegant in the extreme: a ballet of unrecognizable performers, Muybridge...
Bringing the ball upcourt this season, the Crimson women will be coming from the left side. The unusual tactic is not a new twist that Carole Kleinfelder has designed for her offense, it is merely a reflection of the abundance of left-handed guards that will quarterback the women's offense...
Oates' point seems to be that when grand existential problems are embodied in real people, they take the form of mental disease. Philosophical dilemmas are noble in the abstract, but in reality they twist people into hideous shapes. Night-Side seems to be an indictment of philosophers on behalf of ordinary people. But in that case, why doesn't Oates show any sympathy for all these ordinary, tortured people? Although she describes her characters with inhuman intelligence. Oates never shows the slightest hint of compassion for them. Her identification of existential despair and mental illness is not so much...
Like est, Prosperity Training originated in San Francisco, instructs students to "take responsibility for their own lives" and features marathon four-day courses with few food or bathroom breaks. But Prosperity Training offers a new twist; it is pitched to people who feel guilty that they have too much money and those who are puzzled that they have too little...