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UNFORTUNATELY, that kind of unashamed directness is missing from the rest of the issue. The opening "Vanitas" piece by Nick Pilavachi is the most obvious example of the flaw that pervades nearly all the pieces. For most readers, Pilavachi's piece may be the only example of anything in the issue, because it's mighty hard to read much further after finishing this one. The piece has the right premise: by lightly ridiculing the idea that "there is really nothing at all funny about this sordid world," and suggesting a special committee to investigate evil "completely and without incompetence," someone...
WEEKEND. Some wordy Maoist political harangue is the major flaw in this satire of contemporary bourgeois society by Jean-Luc Godard...
...Night-Sea Journey" is a monologue of a spermatazoa on its way to the ovum. It is amusing, and, unlike the other stories, is about love, however abstractly that compact may be presented. There is, though, a basic flaw in the piece: In fantastic literature, the author is allowed to make any conditions he likes, but once these are established, the action must be within their limits. The reader will allow Barth to allow a spermatazoa to meditate, but he cannot allow that spermatazoa to record theories about his purpose (correct in every detail)--which theories no spermatazoa could ever...
...cope with poetic cadences. But when he says that the fall of Oedipus is inevitable, gods or no gods, you ought to believe him. The gods have been blamed long enough. Arrogance alone causes Oedipus' problems. His arrogant, or if you prefer, hubristic pride is the tragic flaw in an otherwise noble character...
...film in color-an inappropriate mode for a fiction written in etched, formal prose, devoid of the sensual palette. Secondly, because the movie was made for television, its time is arbitrarily restricted to an hour-too protracted for spare storytelling and too limited for character development. The most grievous flaw is the choice of the story itself...