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Growth is built into the very fabric of a presidential museum; guaranteed long-term public financing, favored access to new display materials, and bureaucratic responsiveness to the public forestall any loss of momentum and appeal. Associated with this primary growth is the continuing secondary development pattern on the periphery of the sites themselves. This commercial activity is an inevitable response to visitors' needs and public taste...
Ballad of a Soldier was produced in 1960, well into the Kruschev period, and not surprisingly, it is totally non-ideological. It is a simple, at times overly sentimental, but extremely successful demonstration of the disruptive effect of the war on the lives of individuals, and on the fabric of society at large...
...night's action were its impact on the free exchange of ideas, the failure to raise issues in a coherent way would still be the real criticism to be leveled at the demonstration. By forcing people to confront something important, the demonstration could have helped to break through the fabric of seeming acquiescence and apathy that enshrouds not just race-related questions here, but also most of the other issues regular discussion of which would signal the existence of truly free debate. For all its professed devotion to liberal ideals of full debate, Harvard does not foster a climate...
...like some other recent movies from Italy (Visconti's The Damned, Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem and The Conformist), it considers the source and meaning of European fascism. But Amarcord never becomes preoccupied with the phenomenon. Fellini works the politics evenly and gracefully into the fabric of the whole movie and portrays fascism as a crackbrained aberration that allowed for some moments of ritual absurdity even as it brought forth a kind of cagey, half-comic defiance. One of Amarcord's most memorable episodes concerns the playing of the socialist anthem from atop a church...
...Many display a gratuitous use of technique that cannot make up for a lack of interesting subject matter, composition or concept. James Hajicek's cyanotype triptychs of boring, lifeless western scrubland are boring, lifeless photographs, and Mark Harper, who obviously worked very hard at making three-dimensional constructions of fabric, etched silver and silkscreened glass etchings, achieves results that smack too much of kitsch and too little of real conceptual innovation. Happily, only a few works in the show share these flaws...