Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Name Anyway. Today, Monrovia is still a provincial town, but it has nonetheless changed considerably. A splendid, glittering presidential palace, looking like a cross between a Hilton hotel and New York's Museum of Modern Art, overlooks the town-and some of its slums. The John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia, built with U.S. aid and now nearing completion, will be one of the most modern in all of West Africa. Some 2,000 miles of road, paved or not, are open, three railway spurs lead to rich inland iron-ore mines, and low shipping-registration fees (which netted...
...Abbott and Pat Pankhurst all won two events in the sabre. Pankhurst had the only loss in this weaponclass against M.I.T. Winfield and Cetrulo have won consistently for Harvard all season. In the foil Tom Keller was the only double winner as Tom Mistick, Sam Fouts, Cliff Ruderman, and Art Weissman each took one foil...
...settled is how this department will be constituted and operated. The black students want a black department to have the right "to hire the faculty to staff this department and to engage "consultants on black culture, art ideology and curriculum...
...easily dismissable as films which fail to solve problems finally turned into assets in La Chinoise: audience alienation through revelations of the camera itself and of actors as actors; a growing feeling that truth must extend into the working method through improvisation; and most important, the conviction that revelant art must be political in nature...
Preminger has always used photographic space as a prison to trap his characters. In Skidoo the brilliant opening confirms beyond a doubt that Preminger's art is visionary (note the shot, when Gleason and Arnold Stang go upstairs, consisting entirely of croped details of frame elements, showing nothing as an independent whole). More simply, Preminger films the wide-angle claustrophobia of a Hippie bus to contradict their professed freedom, just as the immaculately confident space of the California courthouse is violated by the encroaching teen-agers. If we know how to read the content of Preminger's images, Skidoo...