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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

The Charles Theater was a film theater located in New York's Lower East Side programmed by Jonas Mekas. It "provided the underground with it's first, semi permanent base of operations." "...it became a landmark of sorts in the creation of an American counterculture." [1]



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