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COMMENT | Why does the PM make me think of Buster Keaton?
Modified3 Mar 2021, 4:04 am
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COMMENT | Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s address to the nation on the first anniversary of his administration’s power putsch triggered a thought about Buster Keaton, so I re-watched his classic film
The General.
The film is widely regarded as his masterpiece. Orson Welles, whose
Citizen Kane is widely regarded as the best film ever made, said it was the “greatest comedy ever made […] perhaps the greatest film ever made.” And Welles was not known for his modesty.
Why did the prime minister make me think of Keaton? Because Keaton was different from the other silent movie comedians. I sensed that even when I was a kid watching their movies and shorts in Lido Cinema decades ago.
The Old Man of the Mountain lived on an outcrop in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, and was one of the most well-known mimetoliths in the U.S. before it fell in 2003. Libraray of Congress
A common term most first-year psychology students learn is apophenia the human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in random things, like objects or ideas. There are plenty of ways we see apophenia play out in the real world. Take mimetoliths. A mimetolith is a natural rock feature that resembles a living form in nature usually a face a human head, or animal, geologist Sharon Hill, owner of SpookyGeology.com writes via email. The word was coined by Thomas Orzo MacAdoo but first appeared in print from R. V. Dietrich in 1989. The term is derived from the Greek words