Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEARING spectacles of the wrong prescription usually results in a headache. Likewise, the near-sighted squint with which In Cold Blood inspects its subject matter only strains the viewer. With meticulous regard for detail the film attempts to relate the facts surrounding the murder of the Clutter family by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Drawing from Truman Capote's research, the film version of his book reproduces the chilling aspects of this so-called "senseless" crime--the paradoxical motives of the killers, the inability of social conventions to adequately explain the atrocity, and the irony by which the state executes...
...accounted for by Bodies Beautiful Gloria Roeder and Ed Allen, who work in much the same manner as LaLanne. Gloria, 43, fights "saddlebag thighs" and "dowager's hump" with such exercises as Double Hip Spanks, Thigh Thumps, Chin-to-Knee Bounces and the Pectoral Fling. For "viewer identification," she often has her six daughters, ages ten to 20, exercise along with her. Allen, 39, perhaps to compensate for a double chin, swathes his 197 Ibs. in skin-tight polo shirts and stretch pants, and dresses down his wavy locks with hair spray. He gets 3,000 fan letters...
...Godard's rare best, that nonchalant imperviousness to precedent can provide the viewer with a shock of delight. There are sequences in his films that no other director would have dared to try, or could have brought off half so well: Alphaville's portrayal of the future as nightmare, achieved through location-shooting in present-day Paris; the bittersweet evocations of prewar Hollywood musicals in A Woman Is a Woman; the female mood of sensual boredom in The Married Woman...
Luminal artists commonly require the viewer to push a button or step on a lever in order to activate their art, but Manhattan's Hans Haacke, 31 , has dreamed up an ingenious way of getting the viewer to turn on the art with out really trying. On display last week in Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery was a small white room, lined on four walls with 28 electric bulbs at shoulder level. When the viewer walked into the room, the four lights centering on him lit up in unison. When he moved, other bulbs lit up, chasing...
...mechanism was triggered by a series of hidden photoelectric cells paired with infra-red light projectors, which together created an invisible light grid. The cells were located directly beneath the light bulbs; when the viewer's body intercepted an infra-red light beam, the cell triggered a relay switch to the bulbs above. Haacke's Photoelectric Viewer Programmed Coordinate System furnished little to look at, but lots to ponder at the coffee shops. Does a tree make a noise when it falls in the forest if nobody is there to hear it? Does a work of art cease...