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Elsewhere she craves love and defies authority in the equal measure that makes people want to overrate this band.
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Regarded as British cultural icons, they appeared at a significant period in British history, with Glyn Edwards stating: "[Pulcinella] went down particularly well with Restoration British audiences, fun-starved after years of Puritanism. We soon changed Punch's name, transformed him from a marionette to a hand puppet, and he became, really, a spirit of Britain - a subversive maverick who defies authority, a kind of puppet equivalent to our political cartoons." Astley's Amphitheatre, London circa 1808. Astley performed stunts in a 42 ft diameter ring; the standard size used by circuses ever since.
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In July 2016, "It's All True," a > career-spanning retrospective of Conner's work co-organized by the San > Francisco Museum of Modern Art and New York's Museum of Modern Art, opened > at the latter institution. Roberta Smith of The New York Times called the > exhibition an "extravaganza" and "a massive tribute, with some 250 works in > nearly 10 media." Smith described Conner as a "polymathic nonconformist" who > was "one of the great outliers of American Art" and "fearlessly evolved into > one of America’s first thoroughly multidisciplinary artists."Roberta Smith, > "Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority", The New York Times, July 1, > 2016.
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Chaplin's silent films typically follow the Tramp's efforts to survive in a hostile world. The character lives in poverty and is frequently treated badly, but remains kind and upbeat; defying his social position, he strives to be seen as a gentleman. As Chaplin said in 1925, "The whole point of the Little Fellow is that no matter how down on his ass he is, no matter how well the jackals succeed in tearing him apart, he's still a man of dignity." The Tramp defies authority figures and "gives as good as he gets", leading Robinson and Louvish to see him as a representative for the underprivileged – an "everyman turned heroic saviour".
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