Word: detachedness
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Fire in the Lake failed to dent the barriers in my mind that prohibit objective thinking about the war. The book was too mystical and detached to have anything to do with the country I remember.
All of this would suggest that the return of abstract expressionism, or the arrival of its offspring, is in the offing, and that the artist as personality may be about to emerge again from behind the anonymity of his work. Still--and De Antonio can't fail to show this...
If the actors had less limited styles, then perhaps they could bring it off from beginning to end. The old woman has fine gestures but a redundant voice, while the man has the voice but not the gestures. His idea of old age is to teeter and lurch stiffly, like...
Even so, it is not easy for Americans to stare at revolutionary violence with equanimity, even if the state of affairs in America seems to rule it out, at home, for the foreseeable future. Espousing revolutionary violence requires a measure of dedication to ultimate progressive goals possessed by few people...
Perhaps the only way to prevent a resumption, or a repetition, of the American travesty in Indochina is for us to fall back on our experience these past three and a half years, and take a hard look at the world about us. It is not difficult to recall the...