Word: dialecticism
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In conclusion, we find a dialectic in Lady Be Good--an unresolved dialectic. On one side stands the dumb dialogue, technical weakness and a lackluster beginning. On the other: great music, strong voices and peppy dancing. You just can't dive too deeply in the waters of this show. It...
In 1900, Bertolucci recaps most of 20th century Italian history for the primary purpose of preaching doctrinaire Marxism. Whatever one's politics, the bombast is often hard to take: the writer-director's presentation of class warfare has the subtlety of a B western, and he willfully compromises...
It is a long story, complex, laced with irony (as any tale of cultural colonization must be), and unquestionably central to the history of modern art. Until now, no museum has attempted to document it with one mammoth show, and in fact the Pompidou Center is the only institution in...
Tanner's Jonas, on the other hand, is shot in sprightly colors, but seems to have had the vitality talked out of it. Here are eight characters in search of a dialectic, survivors of the new politics, the new morality, living on the ragged fringes of the old order...
Perhaps sensing the meaninglessness of the terms "radical" and "moderate," the press has devised surrogates that hone in on the concept of the dialectic of Chinese politics; when you're in this supposedly more authentic frame of mind, you talk about idealists and pragmatists, respectively. Even this pair of labels...