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...hearing it: Three short beeps in quick succession: the silence: and then, "Today is Thursday, January 21, good morning, and this is the news from Menashe Harel. Today on the Suez Canal, five soldiers were killed when their jeep..." And so on: on and on. The hostilities are never distant or impersonal: the vulnerability of Israel and indeed its very lack of size is brought home hard in the realization that the names of all casualties are read over the radio, and in every crowd of listeners there is inevitably one to whom a casualty is known, perhaps an acquaintance...
...difficult enough to withstand the pressures of constant conflict, amidst the daily worry, the threats, and the rumors, even when there is a faint glimmer of peace in distant sight. Israel has learned to adjust itself to the situation. Yet it is quite another matter and unbearable beyond quite another matter and unbearable beyond belief to face the prospect of war without end for this generation and for generations to come; to accept as a fact and state of nature that in order to survive, a country can never put down its guns, but rather must raise its children from...
Unchanged Light. De Chirico's empty squares and silent towers seem at first to be conceived as a partial homage to the Italian Renaissance. It is a windless, ideal space where the light never changes and shadows do not move. Human figures are either distant specks or huge, sculptural presences-bronze father figures on plinths, reclining "classical" marbles or faceless wooden dummies. But this world has none of the solidity of Renaissance townscape. Instead, it is enigmatic and spectral; the perspectives tilt irrationally and contradict one another, the façades are cardboard, the inhabitants ghosts. "These characters...
...mean. No, Field notwithstanding, the romantic hero, Martin Edelweiss, is not motivated toward self-eclipse by his parents' early separation. No, there is no connection between Glory's dream world of Zoorland and Pale Fire's Zembla. Though the author admits that Martin might be "a distant cousin with whom I share certain childhood memories," one is enjoined against "flipping through Speak, Memory [Nabokov's autobiography] in quest of duplicate items." Instead, the dutiful reader -always feeling vaguely inferior to the ideal Russian reader-is urged to concentrate on "the echoing and linking of minor events...
...porridge and mumbling about Culloden and dark days for Scotland. Even the action sequences generate little more excitement than a Frisbee tournament. When he doesn't know what else to do -which seems to be most of the time -Director Mann throws in a lingering shot of the distant lochs or the heather on the hill...