Modern Technology
Henry M
gravity at nicom.com
Wed Dec 11 21:00:58 CST 1996
Perhaps I misread your message, but you seem to suggest that obvious,
broadly painted horror is sadder than the light touch of implication,
the nuclear holocaust scenes in T2 necessarily sadder than the
freeze frame at the end of 400 Blows. How sad.
On 11 Dec 96 at 9:16, RICHARD ROMEO wrote:
> > Reminds me of a photograph way back in a 1970s _National
> > Geographic_,
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> > showing an Inuit hunkered down in his igloo for the night, playing
> >
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> > with a battery-operated motor-racing track. One of the strangest
> > and
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> > saddest photos I have seen.
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> How 'bout the cover of _The Age of Extremes_,, history of 20th
> century, forget the author, Eric something?, a burned out Iraqi?
> tank, a cow grazing profane-like nearby?
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> Richard Romeo
>
> Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
>
> The Foundation Center-NYC
>
> 212-807-2417
>
> rromeo at fdncenter.org
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