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...Israeli and not a silver-tagged Gaza vehicle. Mahmoud' s friend, Wasfi Mussa Masharawi, 16, sauntered out into the middle of the street, forcing the car to slow to a crawl. Mahmoud tossed his grenade into a rolled-down window. The grenade had a four-second fuse, and he was gone before the explosion...
...show illustrates the course of study of this 14-year institution, started by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919. To separate any Bauhaus exhibit into class divisions is misleading since a primary doctrine was to unite the crafts with the fine arts and to fuse these two into a third and ultimate structure-the building. Thus resulted buildings like Harvard's Harkness Commons with a mural of colored tile by Herbert Bayer, a brick relief by Josef Albers, the textiles by his wife Anni Albers, and the architecture by Gropius...
PETRES anarchic vacillations and Volonte's schizophrenia both fuse contradictory elements rather than separate them conceptually, and hence should not be confused with the method of dialectical opposition, which is essential to scientific political analysis. The visual tendencies of chaos and centralism are often married within a single shot, and cutting tends to minimize confrontations rather than emphasize them, on both image and narrative levels. Internal contradictions remain implicit and unarticulated dualities, emotional more than rational. The illusion-reality double ending is perhaps the film's ultimate equivocation, refusing to make even one unambiguous political statement on the crude level...
...tepees? -had camped right behind us. And there's old Seabiscuit, the horse that won nearly half a million dollars." On the wall of the guest house is a Dutch windmill; there are ballet dancers in the tool shed, next to some Asian peasants crossing a footbridge. The fuse box is set in Hong Kong...
...responded with rising passion to Tory M.P. Enoch Powell's vision of rivers "foaming with much blood" and of an England transformed by hordes of "grinning pickaninnies" into a vast Asian or African bazaar. "The explosion which will blow us asunder is there," cried Powell, "and the fuse is burning...