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...Pauline never explained what the nature of an "individual response" is, or what is a "new kind of film". In fact, like a self-conscious frontierswoman, she used the words "new" and "individual" as conundrums. It soon became clear that Kael is a dyed-in-the-sawdust anti-intellectual. The "experience" of a movie, for Kael, is both dramatic, and visually, sensually evocative. But, while standing on the line which divides those who look to narrative art for a structured vision of the world from those who just like movies for the fun of it, Kael comes down hard...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Deeper Into Kael | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...Pauline never explained what the nature of an "individual response" is, or what is a "new kind of film". In fact, like a self-conscious frontierswoman, she used the words "new" and "individual" as conundrums. It soon became clear that Kael is a dyed-in-the-sawdust anti-intellectual. The "experience" of a movie, for Kael, is both dramatic, and visually, sensually evocative. But, while standing on the line which divides those who look to narrative art for a structured vision of the world from those who just like movies for the fun of it, Kael comes down hard...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Deeper Into Kael | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...Guide this week that she once began to have a miscarriage on live TV, during the Rose Parade. "I knew I couldn't stand up or move around, because that would just make it worse," she says. "So I just handled it." Currently pregnant with twins, Seymour, like the frontierswoman she is, downplays the episode. "Accidents happen at anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1995 | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...Pauline never explained what the nature of an "individual response" is, or what is a "new kind of film". In fact, like a self-conscious frontierswoman, she used the words "new" and "individual" as conundrums. It soon became clear that Kael is a dyed-in-the-sawdust anti-intellectual. The "experience" of a movie, for Kael, is both dramatic, and visually, sensually evocative. But, while standing on the line which divides those who look to narrative art for a structured vision of the world from those who just like movies for the fun of it, Kael comes down hard...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Deeper Into Kael | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

...heroine is a reluctant frontierswoman of the 1880s named Catherine Crocker. At 35-a refreshingly ripe age for a heroine-Catherine is marooned in a Wyoming mining camp with her boorish husband. After one quarrel too many, she decides to flag a train to civilization. But the train is robbed by four bandits whose hostage she becomes. Naturally, the leader is not your ordinary outlaw. Strong, silent and sexy, Jay Grobart is stealing in a good cause. Ten years earlier he killed his Indian wife, Cat Dancing, in a jealous rage. Having paid his debt to society, he is seeking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Women's Lib Western | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

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