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...definite about his political affiliations. Sitting behind a portable bridge table on the corner of Seventh and 33rd, he conducts an independent voter survey "in cooperation with Edward Bennet Williams and his committee." Sure enough, there is a sign propped up on the side of Harrow's table which depict a man bellowing, "Call for an Open Convention. "Harrow is quick to add that he is not formally employed by Williams. The neatly dressed old man will take his poll--which actually does not mention open convention, but merely asks which candidate the respondent would like...
...this point Lucas--director of the original 1977 Star Wars and executive producer of this summer's The Empire Strikes Back--plans to depict the Rebellion's struggle against the diabolical Empire in nine films, divided into three trilogies. The first two segments, which relate the story of would-be Jedi knight Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), are actually episodes IV and V of the envisioned series...
...thanks to sponsors like the National Film Board of Canada, dozens of artists doodle away. None produces characters so round or squeaky-cute as Disney's or as bawdy and animalistic as Bakshi's. Instead they often depict very real people in not-so-real situations. The best of these is Why Me?, the story of Nesbitt Spoon, an average CPA-type who learns from his doctor that he has only a short time to live--five minutes (and counting). Understandably, Mr. Spoon panics, and his creators have scripted their story so well that it matches perfectly the stages...
...must be discovered in a sustained experience of serious looking and judging...." In other words, Schapiro assures us that if we look long and hard enough we will inevitably see what he sees--that some of the most compelling works in the history of art do not depict human forms...
What, indeed, is the point of all this? Why does Abe depict people as freaks and reduce their motivations to a series of mechanical and sexual impulses? If, as the author once said, this novel is "a parable of city life," then it appears that we are a society of sick helping the sick. Abe, who holds a medical degree but has never practiced, breaks all human relations down into physician-patient relationships where, as "the horse" acknowledges, "Doctors are cruel, and patients endure their cruelty...that's the law of survival." It is not an appealing view of human...