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...poster in the Science Center uses characters from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes to comment on the situation, with Calvin exclaiming, "Money! Ha ha ha! I'm rich! I'm rich! I can buy off anyone. The world is mine...
...simplified and unscrambled. The distinguishing characteristic of Immortality, however, is its refusal to acknowledge any distinction between basic plot and the voluminous speculations that a given action seems capable of prompting. The book possesses a vertiginous sweep of perspectives from the intimate to the Olympian, along with a sometimes comic eagerness to explain not only what happens to its characters but also the evolution of Western culture and the meaning of life itself...
...were bogus and that E-meter auditing could no longer be called a scientific treatment. Hubbard responded by going fully religious, seeking First Amendment protection for Scientology's strange rites. His counselors started sporting clerical collars. Chapels were built, franchises became "missions," fees became "fixed donations," and Hubbard's comic-book cosmology became "sacred scriptures...
...here and finishes there, but that's all you can say for it: nothing happens along the way. Mostly he traces, from slides projected on the canvas. And he traces very badly, which lends his quotations from Old Master paintings -- thick on the ground in this show -- an irresistibly comic air. If you are going to "appropriate" an image from Durer or Gericault or Tiepolo or even some routine seicento tapestry, and do it by hand, nobody expects you to draw as well as your sources; but it helps if you can at least draw well enough to make...
...next step is to patch in some disconnected quotes from Modern Life, like a comic-strip balloon, a '30s car, a nude or an outline drawing of a chair. These can be repeated from picture to picture, thus giving the impression that such images are obsessive, a la Jasper Johns. This will lend an expectation of profundity to the series. Why profound? Because Salle, as everyone now knows, has discovered important metaphors of the meaningless overload of images in contemporary life. Thus his pictures enable critics to kvetch soulfully about the dissociation of signs and meanings, and to praise what...