Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house are destroyed in slow motion-refrigerators, bookshelves, clothesracks. The abstraction becomes Expressionistic, simplemindedly recalling Jackson Pollock. Zabriskie Point offers a final reduction in images revealing the vulnerability of props and symbols that obscure humanity and emotion. The vision is conservative: he idealizes love-making in its simplest natural element, then projects World Revolution in the constructive annihilation of material objects representing social corruption. The explosion montage reaches its audience. It's good to see him bust...
...past, eclipse observations have uncovered some important facts about the sun. For instance, after comparing the corona's shape and intensity from eclipse to eclipse, nineteenth century astronomers realized that ?? changed over an ?? The element helium ?? usual ionized states ?? also first detected from ?? corona's light. The disc??? ions, such as Iron??????? led to a remark ?? corona's tempera ??? reach at least ?? ?? heit in order to pro? ?? When parties are ?? sun they pro? ?? shock waves ?? these...
...concealed in the quote is an exaltation of food as a visual, tactile, plastic, colorful art form. However, because food is also so functional, its aesthetic qualities are often overlooked. Edibility, food's singular characteristic which tends to divert our attention from its artistic nature, is precisely the element which makes it a unique, almost complete, art form...
Fortunately, neither Levine nor his son seems to have been hurt by the poisoning. Even 300 times their dose has produced no ill effects in the two other known cases. But unless the radioactive element is removed, they will go right on "ticking" as long as they live-and probably for some time thereafter. Americium has a half-life of 458 years; it takes nearly half a millennium for 50% of the isotope to disappear...
Since shooting began two months ago, the temperature has rarely risen above minus-five degrees, and more often it hovers a good ten or 15 degrees below that. The camera is equipped with arctic oil and a special heating element beneath the motor, neither of which keeps the film from going brittle and breaking periodically. The sound man has been forced to wrap his microphone in a woman's stocking to soften the noise of the wind that howls across the snow. In one scene that required going without gloves, Tom Courtenay, who stars as Ivan (and uses...