Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full of thickets of line and pools of darkness. Their peculiar sense of space (which looks incoherent in reproduction, but at full scale is not) is recognizable at once to anyone who has gone through swamp: no horizon to be seen, only a succession of angles that, when the eye pushes through them, disclose more tangles beyond. The light is murky. Such color as is there is local-a flurry of pink, a sudden network of vermilion slashes. Otherwise it is all bog color, glazed browns reflecting other browns, dank mossy greens, thick in tone...
...THREE and a half hours. Bergman maintains a seamless child's-eye view. Wishes come true and statues turn into people; everything seems simplistic, but beneath the surface a myriad of half-truths exists. Safe within their highly dramatic world, the characters lead sensual lives controlled by goods, ornaments...
...itself is now a precedent. This summer ABC is trying out a limited series called Eye on Hollywood, which will report on life among the glitterati. Last March, Cable News Network started a weekly series called Hollywood Journal. A syndicated show called Ebony Jet Celebrity Showcase, featuring profiles of black stars, premiered in 62 markets around the country in April. Andy Warhol, the celebrity's celebrity, palely presides over his new syndicated program, which since May has followed the frolics of the beautiful and the damned...
...objectivity at last what the public seeks from its reporters? Certainly, in matters as urgent as wars, no one wants impressionistic sketches or first-person pleas for conciliation, but it may be that pure objectivity is sought less than simple completeness, a good eye and ear for detail. People often have a hard time dealing with facts that distort their presumptions, but that is what they ask of their messengers: tell everything. The difficulty in war reporting is that no one, on any side, wants everything told. Everything includes cowardice, dishonor, the breaking of codes. He who tells everything represents...
...that it may be aroused in support of one's own side. Open as they are, wars are essentially private acts, guilty violations of civilized standards. "Now and then," wrote Ernest Bennett about "potting Dervishes" in the Westminster Gazette in 1898, "I caught in a man's eye the curious gleam which comes from the joy of shedding blood-that mysterious impulse which, despite all the veneer of civilization, still holds its own in a man's nature." If most generals had their way, wars would probably be fought on other planets, free from inspection that leads...