Word: fairground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work is partly made of old-style popular allusions to folk and fairground art. Its imagery is redolent of the fun house, the ghost train, the penny arcade -these small environments of illusion whose hold on the imagination, over the past 25 years, has been so drastically loosened by the encompassing phantoms of TV and movies. Westermann can imbue a model of a building, a little ship's hull or a box with extreme suspense: one peers through the glass at a scene that resembles the inverted world of the fun fair, but concentrated (and made epigrammatic...
...Pucker-Safrai Gallery at #173, a couple of blocks from the Public Library, is currently exhibiting a collection of Marc Chagall's graphics, in honor of his 90th birthday. Chagall's art has the surreal. fantastic quality of a fairground where the sideshows never end. He depicts horses and riders cavorting inside sitting rooms and paints the moon suspended from the branches of a potted plant. His figures generally ignore the dictates of Isaac Newton. People glide, lean, float and spin like marionettes. Sometimes they are gigantic, towering ever a pink Eiffel Tower like the Harlequia-costumed "Magicien en Rose...
Last week Jayaprakash Narayan, a long time force in Indian politics, addressed a rally of 200,000 supporters at a fairground outside New Delhi. Speaking from a reclining position because of an illness contracted during his recent stay in prison, the frail 74-year-old statesman worked the crowd into a chaotic frenzy with his low-key call for the defeat of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in next month's parliamentary elections. As he spoke quietly but passionately about the brutal repression and loss of political freedom under Gandhi's rule, Narayan was frequently interrupted with wild cries of "Long...
...December 5, what seemed like a watershed event in recent French political history took place. From all over France people came to participate, and from all levels of society: small shopkeepers, bitter farmers and disillusioned, out-of-work youth. Sixty thousand Frenchmen, according to the organizers, converged on a fairground at Paris's Porte de Versailles. In the post-dawn cold, they disbanded the last of Charles deGaulle's parties, the Democratic and Republican Union (DRU), and thus marked the nominal end to the gaullist era in French politics...
...meetings. And there were resemblances. When Chirac rose to greet the throng, none of the other leaders of the old DRU party shared the podium with him. When the crowd broke in the afternoon to "elect" a chief for the new movement in voting booths thrown up around the fairground, the electors were presented with only three choices--"for" Chirac, "against" Chirac, or "abstain." One spectator, questioned by a New York Times reporter about the angry but obedient mood of the Chirac boosters, said, "These people exist in all countries. I've seen them in Wallace crowds, in Strauss crowds...