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...Carl Chiarenza shot torn film wrappers to create what one curator described as the only "pure abstract" work of the exhibit. Gary Duehr's Meridian series contains photographs taken intentionally unfocused and the images within them are unrecognizable...
...movie merchants who had arrived in the U.S. barely before the masses they hoped to enlighten. The roll call of Jewish-immigrant moguls has since become its own Hollywood legend: Adolph Zukor, the Hungarian who had worked as janitor in a Manhattan fur store (president of Paramount Pictures); Carl Laemmle, the bookkeeper from Germany (founder, Universal Pictures); Samuel Goldwyn, the glove salesman from Warsaw (founder, Goldwyn Studios); Louis B. Mayer, the scrap-metal dealer from Minsk (vice president and general manager, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer). By the 1930s Mayer was earning $1.25 million a year and was presiding over...
Other artisans found their reward in discovering, and helping to build, an artistic League of Nations in their new land. Casablanca, the best-loved film of the 1940s, could have served as a travel poster for this international spirit. The director, Michael Curtiz, was from Budapest; the art director, Carl Jules Weyl, from Germany; the composer, Max Steiner, from Vienna. And of the top 20 names on the cast list, only three belonged to native Americans (Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson and Joy Page); the rest represented the tattered flags of Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Italy, the Soviet Union...
...answer, of course, is a little of both. The virtue and the defect of this essentially good-natured movie is that its script, by Joel Schumacher and Carl Kurlander, does not play a steady light on any of its several stories, but bounces erratically from one to another like -- well, like St. Elmo's fire. The shifting prevents the movie from getting bogged in the banal, but it also prevents it from achieving much emotional resonance...
...accompanying editorial by Dr. Marcia Angell, the Journal's deputy editor, went further. It was particularly critical of the kind of self-help medical advice given in the Cousins book and others (such as one by Carl and Stephanie Simonton of the Cancer Counseling and Research Center in Dallas, who prescribe for cancer patients mental-imagery techniques that include envisioning their vigorous white blood cells overpowering weak cancer cells). But it also questioned the effectiveness of positive thinking in fighting any disease. Medical literature, wrote Angell, "contains very few scientifically sound studies of the relation, if there is one, between...