Word: classness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Adalen 31 combines dazzling Impressionist pastels with political analysis, setting up a disconcerting tension between superficial stylistic beauty and the undeniable gory reality of a massacre. Widerberg tells the story of a working class family engaged in the historic strike at Adalen, in the north of Sweden, where in 1931 troops fired on a peaceful demonstration and the deaths of five people precipitated a general strike that brought to power the Social Democrats, who have controlled the country ever since. The bloodshed dramatized conditions of inequality that already existed, but were obscured before and after by the sweet, hypnotic surfaces...
...ADALEN 31 becomes a commentary on the class nature of its own images, on the political repression of signs and symbols with vertical, class implications for the benefit of pure representation, appropriation, fetishism of objects. Kjell learns about the pleasures of pure aesthetics from the liberal, cultured wife of the factory owner. The joyous pronunciation of "Pierre Auguste Renoir" becomes a sign for irresponsible privilege and political obliviousness in a sequence intercut with familiar images of Kjell's mother doing washing for the rich. Widerbeg demonstrates the duplicity of his own horizontal aestheticism in a context of social inequalities...
...everybody and performs a social function, possesses a sign-value. Language is by nature a group phenomenon, an device versa. It follows that, in the chance of historical signification's surrounding the events at Adalen in 1931, without a clear definition of group relations, social depth-perception, class-consciousness, etc., you are going to run into problems of language. And from problems of language to problems of political clarity...
...dozen lollipops, a purple crayon or a pink pen in the CRIMSON children's book quiz. He answered 631/3 out of 75, plus getting the bonus question. Honorable mention also goes to the Welsh Triad (the Owl, the Unicorn and the Griffin) and to Miss Jansson's fifth grade class at the Summer St. School, Lynnfield...
Freshman Dan Blakinger, a state champion in Pennsylvania last year. started the Crimson rout with a 10-4 decision of his M.I.T. opponent in the 118 Ib. class. At 126 Ibs. Steve Mousulik outpointed another Engineer...