VLVL-related: '68 all over again

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/rich/121998rich.html

Frank Rich makes a nice comparison of today's events and those of 1968.

Excerpt:
"Surreal, unreal, mind-blowing: these are words of the 60's, and it's no
wonder they returned to vogue this week. Not since a  tottering Presidency,
a divisive war, assassinations, civic unrest and bitter partisanship
overloaded the American psyche in 1968 has there been a spectacle to match
this moment. "Split-screen America" we call it now. It's not happenstance
that split-screen technology also  became a Hollywood fad in movies like
"The Thomas Crown Affair" in 1968. When society cracks, the mind follows,
and artists must concoct new forms to keep pace."

(The last sentence reminds me of Jody's eloquent argument for GR as the
iconic art work for the 60s.)


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