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“Go Ahead, Make My Day!” but What the Drawings Are Simple, Almost Naïve, a Superior State of Humanity Through His Own and the Publisher—Blue Press—Unknown Weather: Partly cloudy and cold today, ‘‘All the News chance of snow; chance of snow to- night. Partly cloudy, cold tomorrow. That’s Fit to Print’’ Temperatures: today 27-30, tonight 13- 19; yesterday 14-23. 5 dollars beyond 75 miles from New York City, Copyright © 1985 The New York Times VOL.CXXXV .... No. 46,566 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1985 except on Long Island. 5 DOLLARS HEYSEL TRAGEDY: StADIUM WARS “GO AHEAD, AN UNEXPLAINED STAMPEDE LEFT 40 DEAD AND 600 WOUNDED IN EUROPE MAKE MY DAY!” Rorschach’s political position is as elusive as his ever-changing mask by MARK FRINTZ Drawing analogies to the next Dirty Harry film, our journalist and film critic Mark Frintz reflects upon the contemporary representations of violence in the United States. Summary The exhibition Immaterial Things curated by French philosopher Since 1971’s Dirty Harry, the Jean-François Lyotard and Thierry Chaput at the MoMA Inspector Callahan series has contin- ued, at an average rate of one film ev- ery three years. While dirty Harry has been criticized for his latent fascism, the third installment, The Enforcer (1976) featured a group patterned af- A Sunburn in November: ter the Symbionese Liberation Army, advocating revolution through armed struggle. These films reflect a fas- Immaterial Things Exhibition cination with violence arising from isolated transgressors, as much as from extreme left political organiza- By BorIS NeUFANG tions. Sudden Impact (1983), famous for the line “Go ahead, make my day,” “This is an exhibition about the concept of humanity at risk. Although was directed by Eastwood himself. It world—the real world—which you we have learned to live with the vision is considered the best, and the darkest, pass through in a fog, and where peo- of a disassembled rifle floating in the of the series, and continues its pessi- ple are mere shadows,” commented an air, it may be time to examine possible mistic tradition. enthusiastic audience member on last repercussions for a society dominated Today, American artists of every night’s “People In The Know,” on ABC. by a super-powerful being that can stripe have a grim view of American The show’s special guest was Jean- pass through material things, reorder society, with its corrupt government, François Lyotard. Asked to answer live reality by manipulating its basic struc- incapable of providing protection or questions from the public, the French tures, or rearrange the structure of ob- ensuring justice. Violence has also philosopher spoke at length about jects just by looking at them. become a recurring theme in the col- his exhibition, entitled Immaterial At the entry to the exhibition, an umns of this newspaper. Yet, from 1980 Things, which opened Tuesday night ancient Egyptian bas-relief shows a to 1985, the crime rate has steadily at the MoMA: “Nowadays we drive goddess giving the sign of life to King declined. electric cars and travel comfortably in Nectanebo II. Next, visitors follow a The existence of an art gallery non-polluting aircraft. This exhibition corridor where five dioramas by Jean- called “Nature Morte” and a nightclub aims to examine the technology that Claude Fall depict the disappearance called “Pyramid” attest to the nostalgia Dr. Manhattan made possible and to of the body in Samuel Beckett’s plays. and disenchantment that inform New analyze how it changed our ways of In an excerpt from Joseph Losey’s York’s current underground scene. thinking, dressing, eating and travel- film Monsieur Klein (1976), a doctor In another realm—that of comic ing.” The exhibition is nothing like a examines a woman’s face: rounded art—Frank Miller released the first traditional museum event. Visitors are gums, arched nose, fleshy lower lip, installment of Daredevil in June. challenged to distinguish between pig- narrow forehead. His diagnosis indi- Entitled “Badlands,” the episode is a skin and collagen, a natural smell and cates that this animal is a Jew. The be- thinly veiled reference to the film by an artificial one, or to grasp the uni- ginning of the exhibit is rather dry. “I Terrence Malick, which recounts the versal language of macromolecules. did not want it to start on a light note. life of notorious 1950s serial killer They make their way through a gigan- The world is poised on a precipice, Charles Starkweather. Miller, whose tic labyrinth divided into five spaces overlooking Hell. And everyone— Ronin series (no. 1, July 1983) featured inspired by words beginning with M: from the liberals and intellectuals to a lone vigilante, stated that his objec- material, matrix, matter, motherhood. those who corrupt the public—is en- tive was to create a sort of naturalist, In light of the scandals caused by tirely speechless; no one has a single dark, Batman-type character. Criminal the exhibition’s first run, from March thing to say. I wanted porous, opaque, or vigilante, the American hero is de- 28 to July 15 at the National Museum conflicting images verging on the in- cidedly lonely. Is America’s imagina- of Modern Art in Paris, the organizers visible. I am not fooling around.” It is tion captured by the theme of broken had to appear before the Un-American difficult to imagine, in this opening social ties? Activities Committee in order to obtain section dotted with samples of skin, Will Clint Eastwood play Harry permission to bring it to New York. work clothes and texts by Antonin Callahan again? Will he continue to Without calling Dr. Manhattan’s ab- Artaud, that Lyotard had initially en- be as solitary as ever? And what solute power into question, the exhi- visioned visitors moving from room to threats will he now face? bition grapples with the technological room on roller skates. excesses of a world in which total con- Read article on page A6 trol of matter may be putting the very Continued on page A11 Dr Manhattan, a Family Affair Dr. Manhattan has Horrific scenes prior to the European Cup Final disappeared from Earth. Where has he gone? By GERALD M. BOYD having been (intentionally?) made to more deliberately planned than televi- BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 11—One wait an inordinately long time, and sion images have been able to show. As year after the incredible pitched battle subjected to strange conditions in the the outline that follows makes clear, By KATHRIN SlaTer in Rome’s Stadio Olimpico, which saw hours before kick-off, fans turned the quasi-military tactics were employed. Pr. of Semiotics, McGill University, Montreal hordes of AS Roma soccer fans rush stadium into a war zone. The exact Within a few seconds, a whole swathe MONTREAL, Oct. 11 — The Blue their Liverpool counterparts, new- number of victims among the more of fans rushed a section hemmed in by Man’s farewell letter, which has just fangled “Stadium Wars,” as certain than 60,000 fans split evenly between fences and security officers. This am- been released to the public, summariz- specialists have dubbed them, have what could only be called “civilian mili- bush had irreversible consequences for es the last three decades of mankind’s apparently been declared in several tias”—Juventus Turin and Liverpool— a large number of trapped fans, who history. Perhaps it also contains clues European countries. In the most recent remains unknown. It would appear either suffocated or were trampled to to our future. instance of this phenomenon, large- that Liverpool fans, who already had death. A dishonored superhero scale clashes erupted last May dur- an active hand in the riot in Rome last ing the European Cup soccer Final in year, surrounded their Italian counter- Dr. Manhattan has disappeared the Heysel Stadium in Brussels. After parts, forming a stranglehold that was Continued on page A2 from Earth, in the wake of revela- tions from our colleagues at the Nova Express. Where has he gone? On Friday night, during a live interview before the public on ABC television, the go- ing got rough. Only a few minutes into Fighting the Enemy of the Future the broadcast, he was asked to respond to charges by journalist Doug Roth that cases of cancer have been reported Jonathan Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan By BerNard WEINraUB among his close associates. More than 25 years ago, Dr. Manhattan, then Jon NEW YORK, Oct. 11—The Air not even declared war on us. It is the Osterman, survived exposure to nu- Force’s Operation Paradise, which enemy of the future. clear radiation that took place during powerful of all superheroes. He is now We have reproduced these messages in ended yesterday on a resounding suc- Daniel Dreiberg’s plan completely a laboratory experiment. Since then, suspected, in addition to desertion, of their entirety on the front page of our cess, offered a glimpse of how wars revises the geopolitical chessboard. he has remained radioactive. (This ex- spreading radioactivity. A few weeks newspaper; after several days of confu- will be waged in the future. Though This is not a nuclear war, but an “eco- plains his remarkable sky blue color.) before the broadcast, his erstwhile sion and silence, the Government final- it is still too early to carry out an ex- nomic war,” whose effects will not be- He claims to have completely mastered girlfriend Janey Slater, probably mo- ly agreed to make them public. While haustive analysis, what follows is an come evident for twenty years. That his unique condition, and has chosen tivated by a sense of revenge, or per- the authorities hope to thereby contact attempt to provide all the information is why it is important to be the first to use it to serve the Western powers, haps by greed, asserted that the former witnesses and gather additional clues that is currently available.
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