Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Apparently, we have become so obsessed with finding a leader that his path is not important. What else can you conclude when a man makes numerous errors in public, denies all but the most painfully obvious ones and still draws frenzied crowds...
That idea makes more sense every day. The path to its fulfillment, involving the whole justice system, would no doubt be long, halting and difficult. It might be expensive, but probably less so than building even more prisons. Still, there is no reason to suppose that it would be utterly impossible. After all, America, repelled by bodily punishments such as maiming and branding, invented the penitentiary two centuries ago as a reform. That suggests, if nothing else, that the country might be capable at long last of inventing a sensible use for the thing...
...sound as natural as daily conversations, vivifying their beauty. Even in his brief moments of arrogance and self-congratulation, Moore's J.B. is a charmer, firmly taking grasp of the audience's sympathy and holding it until the play's final moment. As his life heads recklessly down the path of disaster, he clings to his belief in God's goodness. A man of reason, he must believe that there is justice in the universe...
...PHILOSOPHY of Nietzsche echoes in the background: "You must walk the paths of greatness." And it is too bad, Himmler (played admirably by Heinz Schubert) reflects later under the hands of his obese masseur, that "the path of greatness is strewn with corpses." Syberberg never shows the corpses, but traces the phenomenon back to its birth as fantasy, a dream in the Nazi mind, with tortured mannequins hanging from the gallows, dismembered dolls, as the film proceeds from its first parts, "The Grail" and "A German Dream" to "The End of Winter's Tale" and "We Children of Hell...
Long became interested in the idea of leaving a tangible record of his path on the landscape. He would gather together local materials such as stones, branches and brush, arranging them in circles or lines often reflecting the contour of the terrain. In "England" Long picked flowers out of a field, leaving a green X of plain grass. Long's groupings are all of a temporary nature--patterns in sand that wash away with the tide, clumps of desert grass that will be scattered by the wind. Long's two photographs of man-made structures are significant: Windmill Hill, home...