Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is nothing necessarily wrong with this realism-at-all-costs approach, as Midnight Cowboy amply demonstrated some years ago. But when the director withholds compassion as he ladles on the seaminess, serious reservations about the creative process, as well as its final product, become justified...
...generally agree with the David Owen-Andrew Young approach to the problems of southern Africa...
...race, and he learned fast. To enlist across-the-border support, he joined forces with two Canadian companies and christened his project Alcan. McMillian proved unabashedly opportunistic. When he heard, for example, that influential congressional staffers favored a route south from Prudhoe to Fairbanks, he seized on it. His approach inspired a Washington quip: "McMillian would ship the gas south in cellophane bags if we asked...
...brush can express and the kind of incisive force that the bite of his scissors gave to Matisse's later image of a figure in ecstatic movement, La Danseuse, 1949. The directness of such a cut-out could not be repeated in paint. No drawn profile could approach the strictness of a cut edge, and the paper has its own density as palpable substance-which accounts for the peculiarly sculptural look of some of Matisse's blue cut-outs of nudes, such as the Woman with Amphora and Pomegranates...
...board reforms it advocates-all "consistent with the classic liberal view," Keniston concedes-All Our Children will no doubt spark controversy. While the council's shift of emphasis from the effects of the family's psychological structure to the impact of society on children is a constructive approach, the suggested solutions seem simplistic. All too often, the power of federal mandate seems to be invoked by the council as a magic cureall; wave the wand of legislation, they imply, and problems will vanish. Rather than looking ahead, the council appears to be advocating the same sort of reform...