Word: weird
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walker Evans or told by a New England Tennessee Williams. Morris often seems more absorbed by the manipulation of language, cadence and humor than by the dreadful case at hand. Like a backwoods balladeer, she moves quickly to the final playing out of a tragedy about people whose weird lives have been pushed to the limit by genes, cultural circumstance and a witch's spell cast by the devastating author...
What is this weird object about? Plainly, a satire on commodity culture, the bulimic gorging of mass-produced imagery that is built so firmly into our social responses by now that we cannot, or will not, see its inherent strangeness. Mach is not just a fine-art version of the reclusive hobbyist who makes Eiffel Towers or Brooklyn Bridges from a million spent matches. He wants to turn surplus against itself -- not in the friendly way of Kurt Schwitters or Robert Rauschenberg but with real bloody-mindedness. A Million Miles Away posits a world in which things are carried along...
...said to myself, `of course I'm going.' I didn't know why. It was very weird. But everyone assumed they were going. We weren't political though. We weren't great Kennedy fans...
...Nothing in Common and Dragnet -- attracted quite the attention that his first hit had. Big will almost certainly bring the spotlight back, and his next two pictures, Punchline, the story of a stand-up comic, and The 'Burbs, a dark comedy about a suburbanite's fixation on his weird neighbors, may even raise Hanks' asking price, which is now something more than $1 million a picture...
...while Michaelmania has subsided somewhat since 1982, many fans have remained true to the superstar. Some others, though, have been turned off by his weird lifestyle and interests. Michael seems to contradict himself so often, that it's hard for anyone who enjoys his music to understand what...