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declaration of inter-dependence
Marcel Marceau as Madame Pickwick’s “chargée d’affaires” at ONU. Finally a porte-parole who speaks a language all the talking heads can easily grasp!
have embassy will travel
Finally. UN Security Council P5 plus a short bit, a tiny todger of a nation gives rubber stamp approbation, certain consideration non-withstanding that Madame Pickwick is the world’s first univerally recognized virtual nation. Marcel Marceau in one of his finest … Continue reading
playing the fool
The harlequin character of the commedia dell’ arte, began life in the Middle Ages as a figure of the Devil. The sinister is an inherent element in clowning: even the most innocent of circus clowns makes his grease paint mouth … Continue reading
$#*! That’s real real gone
Its not an ecstasy of death. Its brutal, factual, inescapable physical event devoid of sentiment, nostalgia, romance, and valor. It is the Triumph of Death; uncannily realistic and without myth, or sermon or ritual. To Otto Dix, death was not … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adam Phillips, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Maja, Leo Bersani, Marcel marceau, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Richard Poirier, Robert Fulford, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit, Viktor Frankl
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Lovers In A Dangerous Time ( pt.2 )
…Lovers always live in a dangerous time. In any era and under most human conditions, love is itself a dangerous condition, a precarious existence, a coming of age of what Marcel Marceau called ”the immaturity of the good”.It is pure … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Marcel marceau, Mark Jenkins
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Surreal Art That Mimes Life
He died penniless. He died hungry, sick and in complete solitude. Lonely and compartmentalized. Thats how the curtain fell on French mime artist Marcel Marceau. Sixty years of work and an encore of ending his existence in an empty room … Continue reading
A Surreal Invisible Silence
Mime is the art of making the invisible visible, according to Marcel Marceau. A very complex man, Marceau was the recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Medal for his role is savings hundreds of children during wartime France. ”While in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Marcel marceau, Mark Jenkins, Raoul Wallenberg, William Blake
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