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...midafternoon, carpenters had installed plastic coverings over all but one of the broken windows and started installing temporary doors: maintanance men had restored heat: and the fire alarms were working again
Nothing much had happened to Corsica since Napoleon left home in 1779. The island's haughty, hawk-nosed men still rode off sidesaddle on their donkeys to fight vendettas. Their wives still milked the native sheep to produce a cheese with the clout and consistency of a plastic bomb. The sun still sank blood-red behind the Sanguinary Isles, while local folk singers recalled the prowess of Bonaparte in their atonal anthem, L'Ajaccienne. A calm enough scene-until early last summer, when the somber, somnolent island awoke to the 20th century. Suddenly, bombs exploded in the night...
...have failed to mention two of the film's outstanding accomplishments: the luminous, plastic photography of Raoul Coutard. Godard's cameraman on his ten films, beginning with Breathless (1961); and the score, which owes its beauty to Beethoven's string quarters and its effectiveness to Godard's superb timing. I've also omitted the film's verbalism. Signs and the printed word play a key part in most Godard films, from the Bogart poster of Breathless to the flashing neon lights of Alphaville, and they crop up again and again in The Married Woman. But why they are used...
Edward Kienholz is a former farmer turned artist who is making a name for himself with grisly "tableaux," assemblages of unrelated objects that range from plastic bubbles to coat racks. He typifies a new wave in California...
...goes in for whole stage sets (or "tableaux," as he calls them) that have the grisly impact of a charnel house, yet on second glance present deeply shocking morality plays. Birthday, says the well-spoken former farmer, should express the hope offered by even the most forlorn birth. Giant plastic arrows express resurrection, even if with a tainted blatancy; the plastic bubble above the mannequin mother's mouth, actually a dimestore baby's plastic bubble, symbolizes a scream. It is theater, embalmed in translucent epoxy and cluttered with props-a ghostly coat rack, old sandals, an overnight case...