Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real nightmare puzzles, enervates or scares the victim, and it is a rash man who tries to tell about...
...ornamental detail dominates the picture and the subjects are lost. Furthermore, the figures are treated with a schematized shorthand that fits into a monumental scheme and robs them of their individual humanity. This propensity for slipping into an abbreviation of of human qualities recurs. The expression of the victim's face, in Watson and the Shark, is unconvincing as an expression of terror. Instead, it is a stony, symbolic expression that dehumanizes much of the experience...
...military spending will total $52.3 billion, an increase of $2.5 billion, the war on poverty was allotted only $1.6 billion instead of the hoped-for $2.5 billion. Federal spending outside the war, Great Society programs, and interest on the national debt will be trimmed by $2.3 billion. One notable victim is the space program, which will receive $300 million less than last year, suffering its first cutback in the eight-year history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...Museum of Modern Art in 1960. Despite the efforts of the fire department, his machine destroyed itself. Since then, his bolt-and-nutty contraptions have been more durable. His Dissecting Machine (opposite page) is a gleeful guillotine a gogo, a Grand Guignol comment on man as the victim of his own existence. Says Tinguely: "Life is play, movement, perpetual change. From the moment life is fixed, it is no longer true...
...Victim spends most of its time playing with props, mainly to belabor the notion of space-age IBM barrenness. It wields them clumsily, perhaps because it can't decide whether to have fun with them, as James Bond does, or to use them with unnerving and inscrutable dead-pan, as Godard does in Alphaville...