Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stryker admits that Walker Evans' work stood out from the rest with a kind of cold beauty. But the sharecropper viewed close up from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is one of only a few included in the book. A pity. Critic Lincoln Kirstein was nearly right when...
I remember the 1972 spring offensive, when the North Vietnamese army packed its rations, shouldered its rifles and marched south to free its country as American bombers droned overhead. The North Vietnamese issued one general directive, in the form of a poem, part of which follows, "Liberation fighter, spring in...
Zardoz is visually bounteous. The locale is never specified, but the actors all have one variety or other of English accents, and the film draws much of its bleak, primitive beauty from the Irish countryside where it was shot. The costumes are comic-book eccentric, and fun: the women dress...
As for the unicorn cycles, praise is an impertinence. They vary in conceptual density. The Cluny Lady with the Unicorn set is a relatively straightforward metaphor of the five senses, so that the mythic beast gazes at itself in a mirror to signify Sight. By contrast, the Cloisters' unicorn...
There is a certain charm and challenge in all this. The movie-produced by Robert B. Radnitz (Sounder)-scrupulous about matters of locale and decoration, careful to avoid subverting the circumstances of poverty into sentimentality. The Luther kids-all played by nonprofessional actors-live in a cabin wallpapered with newspaper...