Word: eschewed
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DECAMERON Pier Paolo Pasolini, an avowed Marxist who makes pallid films of Christianity (The Gospel According to St. Matthew; Theorem), has taken on more than he can eschew. Using ten of Boccaccio's tales, Pasolini twits the church by showing lascivious nuns, self-mocking ghosts, corrupt priests and finally the trials of the painter Giotto, played by Pasolini himself. Giotto was a cornerstone of Renaissance painting; Pasolini plays him as an interior decorator. Boccaccio was famous for his ribaldry; Pasolini is notorious for his vapidity. To adapt the Decameron successfully, a film maker must come to his senses...
...acting, the Pope warned, Catholics should eschew both the "dangerous and illusory" appeal of Marxism, as irreconcilable with a Christian concept of man, and the lure of unrestrained liberalism, which exalts the individual beyond social obligations. He called for action, determined at a local level to meet specific situations, to bring about "modern forms of democracy" that combine equality with participation. Though he named no names or specific deeds-except for a favorable reference to worker priests-a source close to him gave some examples of what the Pope had in mind, and they are likely to inflame the existing...
Wood as Grass. Certain younger sculptors at the Whitney eschew the high finish such works imply: their materials are plain, crudely put together and ostentatiously frugal. John Duff's Tie Piece, with its floppy swag of old neckties sewn together and swaying on a curved wooden slat, is a very promising exploration of the possibilities that lie dormant in ignored objects. It is rare to see such a fastidious imagination expressing itself through such deliberately mingy means...
...classical artist does not preoccupy himself with the potentially paralyzing self-conscious effort of contemporancity. All time is present to him at all moments because he sees the world as formal process rather than as an enigmatic cauldron perfused with subjective data. The classical artist's work is to eschew subjectivity in order to illumine in form what changes and does not change in the life...
...more appeasement." It is to be hoped that Rcagan's omens prove to be inaccurate, just as we hope that demonstrators can channel their militance into a more cogent and solidified force. But it is imperative that each of us confront the reality of an escalating situation and eschew criticisms that stem from a futile nostalgia for a time that has passed...