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...emerging from the conceptual rubble of late modernism. Although there is nostalgia for the arid pieties of yesteryear-Peter Lodato's two blank 11-ft.-high rectangles at the Whitney, for instance-the general tone is unsystematic, quirkish and opposed to movements. So much so, indeed, that curatorial bias gets in the way. No one is likely to miss minimal art, but the total exclusion of color-field painting reflects as much bigotry as its absolute dominance did ten years...
Strenio argues his handful of strong points mainly by repetition, piling up examples and appending endless strings of quotations--mostly the testimony of notables (e.g. Walter Lippmann) who share the author's view. Similar "arguments" characterize his treatment of the complex question of cultural bias. He presents examples galore of confusing questions; yet one of them, closer inspection reveals, Strenio wrote himself as an illustration, and for several others he neglected to find out the test's accepted answers. The reader can not but wonder how complete the author's understanding can be of tests that he never even...
...most bizarre tribute to Strenio's anxiety about cultural bias--and his sense of proportion--is his anecdote of a researcher who administered an IQ test to a gorilla on whom she was experimenting. Strenio's concern that the gorilla scored well within the average human range appears reasonable. But his tone does not change as he complains that the animal would have scored even better, had not certain questions (such as "Where should you run for shelter from the rain?") revealed an unmistakeable "cultural bias towards humans...
VERY FEW CONTEMPORARY artists share the classical bias that warfare is noble. Slaughterhouse Five. Why Are We In Vietnam?, Apocalypse Now--the realization is dawning that saturation bombing means blowing up every village in a province designated "strategic" by a Pentagon flunkie, and that anti-personnel devices are grenades filled with steel pins designed expressly to rip humans apart. No Thermopylae for us not even any Chateaux Thierry. We read about My Lai when we were nine or ten, and it will take more than the Iranian crisis to make us forget that the ditches in that small Asian town...
...Puerto Rican nurse (Rachel Ticotin), and some all right, brutal but brief action. Beyond that, the movie takes a liberal attitude toward its milieu, falling neither into despair nor into the tough-minded rightist posturing that marks most police epics, which tend to be cut along the Dirty Harry bias...