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...open physical defiance of prevailing fashion form. The usual course around these dire sartorial straits has been to sail into great billowing garments of soft prints that try to exalt maternity by sentimentalizing it. The expectant mother, shrouded in a calf-tickling Laura Ashley fantasy, becomes a late-Victorian artifact, like a sprite from a Julia Margaret Cameron photograph. A woman who wanted a certain modernity of fashion to complement a contemporary pregnancy, who wanted to be comfortable with her appearance and her condition, pretty much had to improvise, scrounge or raid her husband's wardrobe...
Like More American Graffiti and Willie and Phil before it, Four Friends omits no fact or artifact from its survey of a decade. Pop songs, love beads, Jack-and-Jackie beachballs, deranged assassins-all are strip-mined for significance. The performers (excepting Reed Birney as a gentle, doomed aristocrat and Natalija Nogulich as Danilo's one stalwart love) display little charm, conviction or screen presence. But the intensity of Tesich's obsessions can ennoble his clichés about love of family, friends and country. And Penn, a poet of domestic sexual tension, stages illuminating vignettes to express...
...born in a frontier hovel. Later generations crowded ten to a squalid room in Lower East Side ghettos. Yet Americans operated on a premise of expansion and progress: the private home- more important, more basic, than the automobile, that bright headlong vehicle of the dream- was the outward artifact by which Americans defined themselves...
...three suggestions are being disconsolately accepted. The dividends of necessity, however, could be interesting. After an initial period of bleakness and incompetence while the adjustments get made downsizing and cost cutting may make people think more intelligently about the thing, about the house as an artifact, about what can be done with it. Ultimately, optimistically, the way out of the American housing crisis may not be lower inflation but better design and technology...
...years; memories of Juan Perón's early days in power were fresher and more highly charged when Sábato wrote than they can be now. Immersed as it is in politics and history, On Heroes and Tombs has itself become something of a historical artifact...