Word: primal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dueling egos. Musical infighting built up the excitement they generated, but it also made breakups inevitable. Now, with half a decade gone, perhaps the mightiest U.S. supergroup of all is back together: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, whose pungent lyrics and soft-edged counterpoint to acid rock made them a primal force in popular music...
Like ancient Greek sculptors, Giacometti sometimes painted his pieces as well - not in primary hues, but in a range of pinky grays and dirty skin colors that recall the primal dust of his own studio. This, too, makes them less approachable. One cannot easily imagine fondling a Giacometti. It would not feel good, and in any case the thing always seems too far away. It was the use of distance, both real and implied, to disclose meaning that gave Giacometti's work so much of its aloof, hieratic tension...
...Jewel. No one markets a movie better than Paramount's own odd couple (see boxes pages 88 and 89). An industrial-diamond-in-the-rough, Yablans, 38, orders the world around like a drill sergeant and employs a primal scream as casually as most people sneeze. The slight, agile Evans, 43, given to longpoint collars and cashmere sweaters, projects a kind of artless charm and wide-eyed aestheticism. But he is as obsessive about what he wants and is credited with being the figure who has, in show-business parlance, turned Paramount around. He runs day-to-day production...
...costume balls (admission ranging from $2 to $12). There married couples have traditionally separated, each partner seeking his or her own fun. Rhineland courts usually reject adultery committed during carnival as grounds for divorce. It is all part of Germany's annual equivalent to the collective primal scream...
...from ravens to ostriches, not excluding live dogs and sheep. In the cave the animals, cozy and docile, rest as if inhaling and exhaling the paradisiacal peace of Creation. Through the mouth of the cave, in bold, dazzling sunlight, we see girls bare to the waist, nymphs cavorting in primal innocence. Slowly, and with chilling ominousness, one wooden bar after another slams into place across the face of the cave, as if civilization were sundering these two worlds for all time to come. It is an expulsion from Eden...