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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solanas collects the surfaces of reality in order to reorganize them as objects into a total social context, creating an essay form in the tradition of the far-Left Soviet cineaste Dziga Vertov (who said: "To make a montage ... means to write something cinegraphic with recorded shots."). Appearances serve as linguistic elements, his "writing" vocabulary, which means less concern with the purity of the images (i. e. dialectical compositions) than with their dialectical relation. Individual images of the bourgeoisie, for example, are never caricatured (ef. Eisenstein) in sequences of their normal activities that are perfectly harmless in hemelves: relaxing...
...forum consisted of an hour-long speech by Putnam punctuated with cheers and applause and followed by numerous questions and statements by members of the audience. Putnam first attempted to take the issue of free speech out of an "artificial, abstract context...
...presented as a flashback told by nobody in particular. The film supports Lawrence, and does not drown his military or political achievements for the sake of bombast. But there is still a credibility gap-without cutting a broader swath of history and defining its themes more clearly in that context, we cannot accept them. Lean's claim that he only worked to advance the story rather than concentrate on its atmosphere merely attests to the story's limitations...
Boston's major antiwar event will take place on May 6, when the coalition-led by Mass Pax and the AFSC-will close down the JFK Federal Building in Boston through massive non-violent civil disobedience. In this context, non-violent civil disobedience will mean that protestors will not resist if arrested by police, If the police attack demonstrators, however, individuals will be free to defend themselves...
...this point a split became apparent among the black artists themselves. While the B.E.C.C. was protesting that the organization of the show was not black enough, some of the best-known black artists in the U.S. began to resent the prospect of being shut in a purely black context, as if they were anthropological specimens. They pulled out. Among them were Richard Hunt, Mel Edwards, Daniel Johnson, William Williams, Joe Overstreet and Sam Gilliam. Says Johnson, who happens to be an abstractionist: "From the outset of the show, we felt it was going to be disastrous because of the confusion...