Word: weirder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past ten years have proved a weird time for architecture, and weirder still for its public. In America, vast numbers of new buildings go up. Whole avenues seem to rise overnight, like sprouting plants in a time-lapse movie; status, constantly in flux, is one big slide area. With the action, there goes an equal ferment of fashion and criticism. Classical modernism is defended as archaeology and derided as a failed Utopia. In its place, though more visible on the drawing boards than the streets, there is something some observers have conveniently named "post-modernism." But is that a movement...
...song. David Bowie makes love to Kim Novak in a cemetery. David Hemmings (who also directed) plays a Nazi who turns Bowie's corpse into Horst Wessel. The stars keep straight faces and hold the viewer's eye through every narrative absurdity, and the film is handsomer, weirder, certainly funnier than Hardly Working. It would be stylish high-camp fun-if only the Nazis hadn't existed...
Your editorials on racism at Harvard are getting weirder all the time. The last one (November 25) is almost incredible, and I have to ask if you really mean...