Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This dreadful film is in the same genre as Topkapi and Rififi, but the resemblance stops there. The first half is a how-to-do-it set piece on the art of robbing a football stadium and getting away with the loot. The second half involves the problem, artificially created, of how to split that loot. As leader of the gang, Brown is allowed to take the take home to his former wife (Diahann Carroll). Enter James Whitmore, Diahann's evil landlord. He suspects what's up, but he also knows what he wants: Diahann. "Please," he pleads...
There still persists the notion that Hollywood's greatest art forms are the private-eye picture, the screwball comedy and the musical. Judging from the three latest melodic revivals, Funny Girl, Finian's Rainbow and Star, it may be time for the return of Topper and 5am Spade...
Cloth of Time. In a 1958 preface to The Wrong Side and the Right Side-essays first published when he was a 23-year-old journalist-Camus remarked: "A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened...
...addition to matters of art, Bellow focuses his highly trained and intensely moral intelligence on questions of public responsibility and the possibilities of democracy. The force that his work exerts, however, comes not from political ideology, psychology or poetics, but from a resilient curiosity that encloses a molten core of doubt. What is man? How can he best manage his intellect and instincts? Those are the questions that spur Bellow's fictional quests. He finds no satisfying answers, but his special genius for characterization has progressively narrowed the distance between man's definition of himself and what...
...MOST general level, They use women and sexuality to symbolize whatever man is not, Mrs. Ellmann notes. Her idea is only partly developed, but its implications are extensive. Behind it lies Their ethic of the male writer. In art, the feminine is everything external to the artist--the incoherence and incomprehensibility of Nature. The writer must struggle against this all-encompassing enmity. Sexual capacity is equated with the capacity to write, and woman is what resists both...