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...abstract, Le Bal has the potential to be a successful film. Instead of recounting history through the conventional means of one family or a set of individuals, Scola charts the cultural transformations of France by observing attitudinal changes in the patrons of a ballroom from 1936 to 1983. The film opens with a random group of men and women entering the ballroom, and through an innovative and rather stylized flashback technique, comes full circle at the film's conclusion...
...enhanced its name by decorating its labels with the work of the greatest artists of the time, from Picasso to Chagall. A number of smaller American vineyards have now taken label decoration a step further: emphasizing the artwork over the maker's name. Styles include art nouveau, abstract and realistic; at least one vineyard is putting photography on labels. Zaca Mesa uses several styles, clothing some of its varietals with twin panels of golden oaks and distant hills. Says Ream: "If you go into the supermarket-where the industry is headed-you want people to see the label from...
...notion of love from medieval romances, and the real world seems a strange, indecipherable place. It will always remain that way. At college, philosophies and theories present themselves, but Everett prefers tangible things: "I can tell you what I do want to do when our discussions get really abstract. Go out on the Midway and roll on the grass...
When he exchanges the abstract of the classroom for the concrete of Manhattan, enlightenment is not involved in the trade. Everett's career as an editor is static; an early marriage dissolves in diffidence, and his wife and young daughter move on. Happiness, Everett concludes, is like one of those ideas at the university: too difficult to grasp, and therefore best evaded. In the end, after another failed marriage and numerous unsatisfying affairs, the compulsive wanderer is still at the border, both of feeling and of countries, as he sojourns in Europe. "Why go home?" he wonders...
Equally important, Eckstein left a legacy fast disappearing in an age when the people of the Ivory Tower seem to be increasingly divorced from the world without--that of the scholar who is actively involved in nuts and bolts issues. It was Eckstein who took economic forecasting from the abstract world of the classroom and made it a practical tool for the government and business. It was Eckstein who took his economic expertise directly to Washington in the early 1960's when he served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. It was Eckstein who founded and built...