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...many Zimbabweans, both black and white, in the 18-month-old Mugabe government. After a euphoric year of independence, Zimbabwe is beset by a variety of serious economic and social problems. Says embattled Finance Minister Enos Nkala: "The leaders of the struggle never promised an instant Garden of Eden. The nation must choose the hard road...
...great dignity, immense and unthreatening grandfatherly, a solemn Buddha. His words seem to wigh as much as he does--they come out undifferentiated, as if he'd learned them phonetically (tough this is preferable to his occasional bursts of temper, when he speaks swiftly and unintelligibly). His vision of Eden in Karen Dotrice's ghoulishly starved, black-lipped Desdemona seems weirdly fatuous,even half-witted. Throughout, there's something private about his grief...
Live Fast. Die Young [A Minor Retrospective]--Dean only made three movies, all of them differing grades of terrible. Giant is a movie that seems to run for at least six hours for no reason at all. East of Eden is an embarrassment; a heavy handed and unsophisticated piece of moviemaking. Rebel Without A Cause is almost unbelievably lame...
During this thime he made East of Eden,for which Elia Kazan tapped Dean for the role of Cal. He flew out to California, made the film and returned to New York. By the time the movie was released and Dean was becoming well-know, Dean skipped the opening party for Eden to fly back to California to make Rebel Without A Cause. He was 24, a promising though not terribly popular actor. Brando was all the rage, and had created such an aura about himself, that almost anyone else was sucked into the vaccuum...
...cannot live under a waterfall, though, and Adams' extreme romanticism has prevented him from having many imitators today. The eye behind the lens has become more ironic, farther from Eden, more likely (as Szarkowski puts it) to see "the funny campers with their space-age hiking shoes and backpacks." There is no lack of photographers to approach landscape with intense feeling, but the feelings are not of the same kind. What happened to the old sublimities? Lost with those who believed in them: such, at least, is the message conveyed by Robert Adams' From Lookout Mountain, Smog...