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...Resnais's efforts to give his film grave historical significance, Stavisky remains first and foremost a mood picture, an evocation of a sensibility. Stavisky's mise en scene is more important than its philosophical point. Its characters are only skin deep, if they go even that far--usually they stop, on purpose, at the make-up. Talleyrand said of those who were born after 1789 that they could never really know how good life could be. The same feeling--a combination of nostalgia, snobbery, and contempt for the newfangled present--permeates Stavisky. The final value judgement on this feeling, though...
...Foremost in OPEC planners' minds as they prepare for these meetings will be what they regard-not inaccurately -as the strategy of the consuming countries to crack the cartel's price front. Last week, for example, delegates of the 18 oil-consuming nations that make up the International Energy Agency met in Paris to work out their own position regarding the oil states. The U.S. position has been that it would not attend the April meeting unless it had strong backing within the IEA on at least one or two proposals aimed at helping to free the industrial...
Photography is foremost a window on the world. The photographer's two most creative decisions involve the framing of that window and the timing of the camera's shutter which permanently freezes the window's view. For the snapshot photographer, framing involves an attempt to capture a scene's ambience, rather than an attempt at strong composition. None of the photographers in The Snapshot crop their images; incongruities are as important as congruities. In one of the essays which stud the book, Tod Papageorge writes of his efforts to capture "superficialities." He wants to reveal truths not by grabbing moments...
...them a new breed, but their enthusiasm may wane after years of work as corrections officers. Inmates do not always get along well with the few social workers and therapists, but on the whole they relate better to them than to the guards, who they know always have security foremost on their minds...
During the past 100 years Brazil's 29 rulers have included Portuguese monarchs, populist revolutionaries, fascist generals and moderate republicans. Regardless of era or ideology, all have faced a common adversary: O Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil's foremost newspaper. On a continent where journalistic rebels perish quickly and most surviving publications are servile in spirit, O Estado stands out as a durable, responsible independent. The paper so treasures its freedom that last month, on the 100th anniversary of its founding, it publicly still admitted to only 95 years of independent existence; the years 1940-45 are excluded...