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...late" de Kooning. When the slight, pale Dutch youth smuggled himself into America without proper papers in 1926, he brought with him something that very few of his colleagues in the New York School of the '40s and '50s would turn out to have: a thorough, guild-based art training that centered on formal drawing of the figure...
...speech by Michael Avory, a member of the National Lawyer's Guild Committee against Intervention in Central America drew prolonged applause. "There's no question this violates both the Constitution and international law--it is the complete destruction of the government of a sovereign country," Avery said...
...forum was sponsored and organized by a number of groups, including the Alliance for Better Legal Education, the Harvard Law Guild, and the Black Law Students Association...
...four p.m. one afternoon last week, a crowd of people who were not quite sure how to dress for the occasion bustled into the neo-Andalusian splendor of Manhattan's Guild Theatre. They were going to see a Eugene O'Neill play-an important one. The play, Mourning Becomes Electra, would run continuously with an hour's intermission for dinner, would last five hours...
...market cornered." Directors must become studio outlaws, raising money from independent sources, and this demands as much ingenuity as planning and shooting a film. Oshima financed his last three films with help from producers in France, Britain and New Zealand. Other directors may receive grants from the Art Theater Guild, which in the past 20 years has helped launch the careers of Oshima, Susumu Hani and Masahiro Shinoda. "If Japanese cinema hasn't become extinct," says Critic Sato, "it is because of the life-and-death efforts of directors who risk their own money and property to make movies...