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Watching the film, says The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane, is like "getting whacked over the head with a shovel."
Any sign of restlessness, for instance, is summed up as, All of a motion like a Mulfra toad on a red hot shovel, and when shivering, it is a case of cold as a quilkin [frog] or chilled to the marra [marrow].
The earnest Macy, the whitest man imaginable, has been given an African-American wife, to whom he must constantly defend his unrealized ambitions: "I shovel well.
From one point of view, Johns' flags and targets derive from the famous ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp--the urinal, the bicycle wheel, the snow shovel, all exhibited before 1920.
And nobody's worked them to death or bashed their heads in with a shovel.