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Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock
terror: strategies of the absurd
…The Palestinians terror groups appear to have made the strategy of the absurd into a specialty: the sheer audacity, historically, of their most spectacular exploits seems to flout any criteria of rational behavior. However, other groups practice the same basic … Continue reading
terror: sheer, irrational madness
…Even more distinctive of modern terrorism, as opposed to its origins, is the random nature of its violence. Earlier terrorists usually had some specific and comprehensible grievance against their victims. Quite often the attack was in retaliation for the acts … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Black September terrorists, Dr. George Habache, General Trepov, Ivan Kaliaiev, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent, Lod Airport Massacre 1972, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Modern terrorism, Munich Olympics Israel Olympic Team, Vera Zasulich
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the 1950′s: many monuments to tedium
Rosy myths and unrosy realities. Why must we feel nostalgic for the 1950′s even if we never lived them? … …let it be unequivocally stated that television of the 1950′s with a few exceptions was absolutely awful, as most of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock Strangers on a Train, Bogart African Queen, Bwana Devil movie, Deborah Kerr actress, From Here to Eternity Movie, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Cardiff, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, On The Waterfront, Robert taylor Quo Vadis, The 1950's American culture, The 1950's decade
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exact fit
by Art Chantry: this profile line drawign of hitchcock is so famous that we assume it was done by an old master celebrity illustrator like hirschfield or somebody like that. this particular version here is so ancient that you may … Continue reading
greatest horrors offscreen
Just in the nick of time. The eleventh hour. As the fuse was being lit….The bottom line is send cash. Lots of it. The propensity of regimes like Jordan to always be reduced to begging status, to fabricate fantastic plots … Continue reading
stone genius
by Art Chantry: john carpenter is one of my favorite directors. the guy does some some stinkers, yes. but, like roger corman, he never loses money. he penny-pinches and lowballs and craftily compromises to meet his low low budgets. he … Continue reading
citizen candy kane: sums of discrepancies
After foisting one over on the low threshold of common sense that characterizes the American public with his radio adaptation of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds, a kind of national exercise in mass hysteria and trauma that conveyed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Hopsicker, Dr. Maurice Bernstein, Edward Bernays, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Stanton, Franz Kafka, h.g. wells war of the worlds, Hadley Cantril, Hedda Hopper, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Ivy Lee, louella parsons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Citizen Kane, Walter Lippmann, William Randolph Hearst
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fast food on the game reserve
Roadkill? Maybe its a metaphor for sexual tourism. Maybe he doesn’t really kill the animal, going through the whole tracking and shooting. Instead, he hers them into a fenced in area and runs them over in a Land Rover. Or … Continue reading
zombie banking: deposit at your risk
Early on in the financial crisis, economic opinion from the like of Krugman, Stiglitz et al. warned that the greatest danger of the bailouts was the creation of zombie banks. Essentially cadavers, near cadavers with a faint pulse in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Bernie Madoff, dr. robert hare, Hannibal Lecter, jack Kevorkian, Jim Rickards, john quiggin, marinus van reymerswaele, Meredith Whitney, Paul Krugman, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, psychopathic behavior, Quentin Massys, yalman onaran
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