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This is definitely a cinema of ideas, the clearest such cinema there's ever been, greatly superior in comprehensibility to anything Godard's ever done; indeed, it solves all the problems Godard's been worrying about recently. It's self-critical cinema which assumes the reality of nothing except the event actually taking place on the screen. It's popular cinema that works, yet is rigorously intellectual; it incorporates fiction and polemic without falling prey to either, instead placing its reality exactly in the balance between...
...only race where ecology turned into the clearest political issue was in Idaho. Cecil Andrus, 38, a Boise insurance executive, became the first Democrat elected Governor of the state since 1944. He defeated Incumbent Don Samuelson partly by opposing a Samuelson-backed mining development proposed for Idaho's scenic White Clouds region...
...moral aura around country music becomes clearest in its reaction to rock-n-roll. Until Elvis, white musicians came to the Grand Ol Opry (a converted church still using the original pews) in Nashville to learn country music's own particular styles and techniques. But with Hound Dawg, using borrowed blues lyrics and Elvis's own brand of hard twang country steel guitar, all the walls between black and white music collapsed...
...present for an old friend, and I picked up Bill Knott's Naonti Poems. I don't know what I was looking for-I suppose I was expecting another dose of tense, burdened lyricism, or brief, staccato bits of free verse machinery-but what I found was the clearest, purest, most unpretentious voice I'd come upon among younger poets. Knott's images were whole and satisfying: for once words were the things they said they were. I bought the book and never gave it away...
...journalist has made his name in Souhteast Asia, Robert Shaplen has. His reporting has been the clearest, the most insightful, the most informative to come out of Saigon over the past decade. Yet, while he has continually discovered corruption, inhumanity, and brutality everywhere, he has been strangely reticent to criticize the war itself. Indeed, he has been the foremost representative of the "victory is just around the corner" school of journalism...