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In two of the very few sequences where Heinlein focalizes events through a PanAsian official, the latter sneers at the Americans as inferior 'aborigines' and 'crazy savages,' ironically consolidating the racial level of the action.
The most powerful works stunningly allowed the two extremes to touch, as in Gordon Matta-Clark's video of the (un)making of Conical Intersect, 1975, an awesome creation-through-negation that evokes an architectural sublime even as it focalizes through its unruly transgression the controversies of urbanism surrounding the renovation of Paris's Les Halles market.
 
 
 
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