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...Under an archaic law, any guest registering at a French hotel is required to fill out and sign a form, called la fiche, establishing his identity, address, occupation and, if a foreigner, his passport number. Fichisme is not only a chore for hoteliers, who must turn in the forms to the commissariat. For loving-if uncertified-couples, it can also be a mortifying ordeal, involving all the devices and evasions of a Feydeau comedy...
...Claes Oldenburg's 18-ft.-high red steel Geometric Mouse, Scale X looks convincing on its beach, and why Alexander Liberman's Argo is the most successful combination of work and site in the entire show. The white sails, cylinders and arcs simultaneously evoke an archaic temple precinct and a ship, while running a counterpoint to the real spinnakers billowing on the sea below; they turn a flat site, for a moment, into a reminiscence of the Aegean. It becomes increasingly clear that Liberman, along with Mark di Suvero and Clement Meadmore, is one of the three...
...claim either the fish in the water or any rights over ship transit. But a few other nations, starting with Chile in 1947, drew no such distinctions and declared that they owned the waters extending for various distances from their coasts. Today, while many countries still abide by the archaic three-mile limit, most do not. Russia, for instance, claims twelve miles; Iceland, 50 miles; South Africa, 100 miles; and others, mainly in Latin America, 200 miles...
...seem to have gone wrong somewhere. Clearly, Hodges intended a caution against science that can mistake mind warping for mind mending. Despite all the patent disapproval, though, the operation still seems feasible, the only alternative to Benson's previous condition. The unresolved conflict lends the film a rather archaic tone, like those old horror movies that ended in the smoldering ashes of some laboratory, where a dim but wise policeman would shake his head and say, "Man wasn't ready for such knowledge...
Teeth in the T-Zone. The Women paintings are bathed in influences - 1930s Picassos and 1950s cigarette ads (that smile was originally a Camel "T-zone" clipped from a back cover of TIME), Cycladic sculpture and Mesopotamian idols, the "archaic smile" distorted into a toothy leer. They are also drenched in evocative rhetoric about monstrous, insatiable female deities. The Women have been compared, severally and together, to the destroying Kali, to Robert Graves' White Goddess, to Alban Berg's Lulu, to Lilith and Marlene and Marilyn and Mona Lisa. Now obviously these drawings do have their demonic aspect...