Word: artifacts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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This pays off when the artist takes over an abandoned villa and begins redecorating it. The house's rooms and walls are the ultimate artifact, the residue of man, the set of objects to be read for their cultural significance. Spooky events begin to occur, but the film keeps its virtue for a while and refuses to name a specific thing as the cause of these malicious supernatural events; and thus the film avoids haunted-house cliches and goes, once again very perceptively, to the core of the haunted-house experience: that a house has human meanings built into...
...this film and in the middle of Leo the Last. I began feeling very sick and at length had to leave the theater. I know exactly what caused it too, even without having felt it before: sitting in the dark and looking at each formal event, each cultural artifact being presented to me on the screen, as a piece of human design whose significance had to be read. Presumably closer and closer viewing and speculation would reveal a more basic design-some corner of the way things work or perhaps the way people's minds work (there's always...
...then I became aware that I didn't want to listen to anything either, especially sounds that I felt I had to interpret as though they held the same significance as speech. Then even smells began to get obnoxious. Everything before my conscious senses seemed to be a human artifact (which is exactly the pop-art sensibility) and an object of culture. It's against obsessive analysis that my senses revolted, imposing a total nausea on me. It's curious that, as Sartre noted, music didn't bother...
After the first quarter of the book, which tells a complete story, the editing gets worse. Dille apparently considers the strip an historical artifact rather than a good story. In the selection of Sunday strips which follows, he cuts one story off arbitrarily to make room for an example from a later period. Black Barney and his companion Buddy Deering have just escaped from a Martian slave labor camp, and are looking for some way to remove the remote control bombs which the Martians have welded around their waists. In the last panel, Barney realizes that he has forgotten...
...feel sorry for. That's why Charlie Brown was born. A human Edsel, a micro-Stassen, doormat to the world, Charlie has built a career on ineptitude and defeat. As a result, millions of idolaters have hailed the conquering zero, elevated him from comic strip to national pop artifact, and transformed his creator, Charles M. Schulz, into a new Disney...