Word: contents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slaughter, calling on the Israeli army to send up hundreds of flares and star shells over the camps to illuminate their bloody work. "Thursday night was an inferno," recalls a medical worker at Gaza Hospital. "The sky was never dark. The shooting never stopped. The people screamed." Not content with merely shooting people, the assailants used ropes and hatchets; many of the victims were bound together and mutilated. Some people were killed in their homes, while others were dragged outside to be murdered. Judging from the debris that was left, some of the soldiers had leaned against a house...
...Townshend is not content to tackle only the timeless problems of human relationships and suffering. He deals also with the here and now, with issues directly relevant to our generation. In "I've Known No War," Townshend decries the absurd prospect of nuclear annihilation with more than just a touch of irony...
Into the vacuum rushes film critic Diane Jacobs. "Only his analyst," burbles the book jacket, "could possibly know Woody Allen as well as Diane Jacobs." Jacobs does, in fact, take something of the analyst's approach: dutifully "listening" to, or in this case recounting, all the content of each of Allen's works, then examining it for patterns. She succeeds in detecting a few basic clues. The later movies are subtler than the early ones, for example, and Allen the artist separates himself more and more from Allen the persons. Oh, and there are some continuing themes: the contrast...
...That is done in identifiable ways: in sciences by experiment, conducted essentially in mathematics; in social science through quantitative and historical analysis; in the humanities by studying the great traditions We are not ignoring content but simply recognizing that because of the knowledge explosion, it makes sense to emphasize the gaining of knowledge...
...regard Avery as a potentially abstract painter who could not quite summon up the courage to drop content was one of the minor illusions of the '60s. Avery was uncompromisingly a figurative artist, like his mentors: Matisse and to some extent Picasso in Europe, and in America such painters as Ryder (with his visionary seascapes) and Twachtman. What his best works offer is a very American sense of Arcadia, a hard-won paradise of the natural world reconstructed in terms of color. Shape is reduced to the minimum: some flat silhouettes, relatively little internal texture...