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...there are important differences between the old and new refugees. Besides the fact that the earlier arrivals drifted in over a period of 20 years, giving the community time to assimilate them, many were middle-or even upper-class Cubans who arrived with some money and marketable craft or professional skills, and they came in family groups. The new refugees are predominantly penniless workers. A disproportionate number are single young men who grew up under a Communist system and have no idea of what life in a capitalist democracy is like. Though the established Cubans have been generous with donations...
Poetry has long been regarded in America as unprofitable and sissy. A laureateship would be a way to give the craft some livelier hormones. It might also serve to draw poetry more into public realms, out of the excruciating and quivering privacy in which it now abides. To avoid the English laureate's hobbling obsequiousness, an American laureate would have to be guaranteed his independence. But beware of a lifelong appointment, like one to the Supreme Court; it might make a poet fatuous, "official" and eventually senile...
Look at a painting, listen to a record, read a novel or even a movie review, and you are in the presence of something immutable-a work of art or craft that has achieved its definitive form. In theory, film should be the same: an art machine as permanent as bronze replicas of a Degas dancer, as popular as the Model T Ford. In fact, film has become a most pliable plastic art. A wily producer, a finicky censor, even a TV executive can alter or destroy the film's shape, texture and meaning. Now the directors are playing...
...something special is required "to set one off." Rhapsody owes its existence in part to Baryshnikov ("It was thrilling, really. I have never worked with anyone who has such a brilliant technique"). But Ashton has nothing else planned now: "I could do the Blue Danube tomorrow. I have the craft. But to do an other ballet, I want a strong pulse, an idea or very suitable music. That sets me off." -By Martha Duffy
...action movie whose subject is machines, and the sophisticated killing ma chine man could become. The hardware is the star here: the souped-up Chevies and demon motorcycles, captured by Miller's supple, fender-level camera - one machine in sync with another. With his instinct and craft, Miller has provided more autosuggestive violence on a $1 million budget than The Blues Brothers did with half the Chicago police force and $30 million...