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...EARLIEST CHURCHES in Cappadocia were built in the Iconoclastic period, when representational artwork was forbidden, and are decorated with giddy geometrical designs, all in red: interlocking triangles, spirals, and checker-boards. After the restoration of images in 842, wall painting became iconographic. Later churches are resplendent with brightly colored (the colors being derived from herbs, roots, and the like) frescoes of Byzantine heroes: St. George lancing the dragon, St. Christopher, and the Byzantine Emperor Constantine and his Empress, Helena...
...matter that TV serials portray alcoholism and homosexuality or that bikini-clad models frolic in commercials for Caribbean resorts. By fiat of the Television Code Authority of the National Association of Broadcasters, TV commercials have long been forbidden to show beer and wine actually being consumed or undergarments stretched over living, quivering flesh. If viewers who did not want to watch earthy programs were assaulted by racy commercials, the broadcasters feared, the industry would face charges of offending community standards of good taste...
...face the entire weight of a discriminatory and oppressive society arrayed against them, from mineowners to the goonish forces of law and order they control. But the unusual aspect of this film is its focus on women's participation in the strike: when the somewhat macho Chicano men are forbidden to picket by court order, the women go out on the line and win the strike...
...certain sense, The Front is an easy movie to criticize; almost everything it does could have been done better. On the other hand, it is a very difficult movie to judge because it takes up a previously forbidden subject-the blacklisting of showfolk suspected of Communist leanings during the early '50s-and has the nerve, and grace, to take an absurdist view of that deplorable era. For that, and for Woody Allen's fine performance (against his usual comic grain) in the title role, it deserves respectful attention...
...country. Some were from peasants or workers from areas that Mao had visited during his revolutionary career, recalling the Chairman's kindness or inspirational qualities. One, by the "8341 unit" of the People's Liberation Army, charged with sentry duty at Mao's Peking residence, Forbidden City, stressed his abstemious habits and concern for the masses. Mao, the soldiers noted, worked "at all hours," frequently "ignoring calls to meals" and seldom resting, even on holidays and festivals. His shirts, shoes, blankets and sheets were said to be "worn thin from many years of use"; Mao refused...