Wayne Eagling, a friend of Mercury who had helped him before with the choreography of theBohemian Rhapsody) forms part of the music video for Queen’s singleI Want to Break Free(David Mallet, 1984). Freddie Mercury dances the role of the faun, with dancers from the Royal Ballet also perfo...
. It even seeped into the hopelessly indulgent and padded-outIn the Shadow of No Towersin 2004.MetaMausis full of strips by Spiegelman where (in his familiar pose, glum and defeated, at his drawing board wearing a mouse mask) he agonizes about the legacy ofMaus– at first I thought ...
to appear and in the Holy Land, where he was crazy enough — as shown in archive footage — to ask Yasser Arafat to draw a Palestinian and an Israeli flag and then take the drawing to Shimon Peres and ask him to sign the paper, too, as if it were a peace deal between the leaders...
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• The BASIC programming language developed by Kurtz and Kemeny • Ruth Weiss introduces drawing software that performs hidden line elimination • RAND tablet input device (commercially known as Grafacon) • compact cassette tape (Phillips) • Electronic character generatorAnimation...
To this day I still think the Beatles’ song Taxman is a genius ode to the confiscatory abuses of a too powerful and greedy state. But then there is Lennon’s pathetic and syrupy song Imagine … a horribly pretentious headache inducing tribute to Marxism and frequently regurgitated by usefu...