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...biggest and most theatrical of all the Leaf works is Street Dreams: The Ascension of the Pig Lady, a grouping of nine characters set in a shallow stage framed by a proscenium arch. Cast as a waitress with porcine pink cheeks and a snoutlike nose, the pig lady is about to be plucked up to heaven by a man and woman sprawling across the top of the arch. Explains Miss Leaf: "If there was going to be another Messiah, it would appear in someone who would never expect it, like a waitress, and she would turn into...
Warhol has implemented the notion not only through painting and constructions, but by making plotless, purposely boring films like Empire, an eight-hour lenticular contemplation of the Empire State Building. Such creations can be viewed as a form of extremely arch satire, although they also encourage the viewer to experience familiar objects in fresh ways...
...mother Mrs. Hardcastle, the inevitable Sheila Hart must be applauded for the style she brings to the production. Her second act entrance with an enormous Marie Antoinette headpiece, complete with decorative clipper ship, is a first rate metaphor of spectacle as the Hum 7 people would say. Her arch delivery makes for a kind of cutting humor that saves this trifle from being just a confectioner's tableaux...
...race for re-election to the Senate, in this state that gave George Wallace over 50 per cent of its popular vote. All eight Democratic congressional candidates were easily reelected, five of them running unopposed. Among those returning to e Ninety-First congress are HUAC mogul Edwin E. Willis, arch-segregationist John R. Rarick, and F. Edward "Get rid of the First Amendment" Hebert...
...black problems. Inserted between chapters on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, is a section on the white race and its heroes. "What has suddenly happened is that the white race has lost its heroes. Worse, its heroes have been revealed as villains and its greatest heroes as the arch-villains." Youths "recoil in shame from the spectacle of cowboys and pioneers--their heroic forefathers whose exploits filled earlier generations with pride--galloping across a movie screen shooting down Indians like Coke bottles...