Word: wasteland
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...roads of Fellini's La Strada, their shabby existence is spot-lighted in the arena of The Clowns. On the beach, they will later encounter Picasso's "Seated Bather" (1930), a skeletai nightmare perched at the water's edge, turning the earlier symbol of the beach as social wasteland into the psychic boundary between the conscious and sub-conscious. Picasso's surrealism, captured also in the implicit and explicit imagery of the theme of the artist and his studio, or in his "Girl before a Mirror", raised the question of identity through images now hauntingly familiar from Bergman's Persona...
...enclaves of American power is almost too great to believe. One woman wrote of her pre-refugee life in the Plain of Iars, a strategic valley in Northern Laos which was formerly littered with huge stone cisterns thought to be ancient funeral urns. It is now a deserted wasteland. She reported: "Every day and every night the planes came to drop bombs on us. We lived in holes in order to protect our lives...Thusly, I saw the life of the population and the dead people on account of the war with many airplanes in the region of Xiengkhouang. Until...
...play. Lake of the Woods is Western desert land. All that roams over it now is a cartoon of Kit Carson (Will Hussung). The hero, Winnebago (Hal Holbrook), though Indian by name, is really our old friend the emotionally parched middle-aged American. He has wandered into this wasteland thinking it a fisherman's dream. It is of course the familiar American Dream, bathetically symbolized by Winnebago's dying daughter...
...ever been written to a flat-topped building in the sunset." But in a recent issue of the AIA Journal, Landscape Architect Lynn M.F. Harriss points out that these rooftops comprise hundreds of acres of usable open space in the cities' most congested areas. Now a wasteland of tar studded with water tanks and elevator hoists, they could be made into green public parks...
...broadcast lobbyists in Washington would reduce its generous funding to a trickle. Given this bland, canned state of TV, does the audience have any hope at all for fast, fast, fast relief? After 365 pages of documented despair, Brown suddenly goes upbeat, trusting the general viewer to reforest the wasteland. The result is reminiscent of the happy ending tacked to a TV melodrama. It also reflects an abiding belief in the populist tradition. "The freedom of the public," says Brown, "is the time bomb in television." So far, the freedom has meant nothing, but in Television it is both funny...