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...observer so that his audience will be responsible for creating its own realism; like Godard, he favors a fade-out to black between shots, allowing his viewer a space to fantasize within the action. The total result, however, is Fassbinder's own. The overall feeling he evokes is simple, clean-cut and slow-paced, but enough shots identifying the artifice or the absurd are cut-in to indicate Fassbinder's love of camp as well. Mother K.'s daughter is seen almost exclusively through mirrors, applying lipstick, mascara, brushing her hair back in the mirror or a car floating eerily...

Author: By Joellen Wlodkowski, | Title: Ritual and Revolution | 4/26/1977 | See Source »

...rare occasion indeed when a rock columnist can bury the hatchet-pen, and unequivocally sing the praises of a rising group with the potential for world-beating success. I sing today specifically of the Ramones, a neat, clean-cut group of young men--none could be more than 19--who hail from Forest Hills, New York. Forest Hills has spawned a great number of talented rock performers in its day--among them Sam the Sham and two of his Pharoahs, and two of the Four Seasons--but few of those people could boast the unique combination of sex appeal (good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROCK | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...phrase "born again" conjures a variety of images--straight and clean-cut young people handing out tracts on street corners, sudden revelations, a provincial team spirit for God with a sprinkling of busybodiness...

Author: By Janice L. Cox, | Title: Defining 'Born Again' | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

Philippe Levasseur was the good one. He was 25, quiet, slender, clean-cut, a steady worker. Until about six months ago, he lived at home with his parents, farm workers in the Normandy village of Londinières. Then he went to the nearby port of Dieppe and got a job working in the oyster beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cain and Abel | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...screen some clean-cut radicals were holding their arms up against a wall waiting to be frisked. Al and the Lite drinker on my right discussed Hank, an old jockey...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Notes from the Underground | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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