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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Granted: there is some innovation in the film and some shock value. But the innovation is rather conventional (addition and deletion of scenes, effects of light and color, and so on), and the shock is neither scandalous nor exploitative. Certainly in the context of the past year, the violence in this Macbeth is hardly noteworthy. It is not that the film is without its visual extremism. One simply would have expected more from Polanski, Tynan, and Hefner, and one is thankful for less...
...THIS incident only probably happened. The narrative moves within the context of Yanos' explanation to his fishermen friends of Anada's return to the river and suicide. As Yanos recalls his increasingly dominant passion--his brusqueness dissolving into his kissing her, his resolve to flee melting into his buying her secret presents that she refuses, all his upright intentions leading to his sleeping with her--he cannot separate reality from his imagination's desires. When he recalls making love with Anada, she uses the same words as his wife. Has his imagination supplied that speech to make the act less...
Groove Tube 2, the sequel to Shapiro's first Channel One production Groove Tube, presents a series of video-taped episodes over closed-circuit television. Video Theater reinforces the familiarity of the medium's context by creating a living room-like atmosphere. Only thirty or so viewers watch each set in the main room and, in the smaller room the audience sits on floor cushions before one large receiver...
...vote of 5 to 4, it upheld Ginzburg's conviction. Speaking for the court, Justice William Brennan said that Ginzburg's products should not be considered out of context; his promotional efforts showed he was pandering to prurient interests. The mailed advertisements, said Brennan, "stimulated the reader" to look "for titillation, not for saving intellectual content...
...defy it. Oldenburg, at 43, is one of the most avidly collected artists in America. The reasons have little to do with the Pop ballyhoo of the early '60s; firmly independent of movements, he has been trying for the past six years to get clear of the narrow context of museum art and the still narrower one of private buying. So his projects for monuments are an effort to take over the environment-"to make," as he puts it, "something so big that nobody can possess...