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Later, discussing the judge's ruling that the film was not obscene, Droney remarks that Alberti was "dead wrong on the obscenity issue." But Droney is not heartless--referring on at least one occasion to Stork and Hagen as "the children," he blames Dershowitz for the entire incident. "I believe in my judgement he would put the issue before the welfare of the students," he said, explaining why he refused to meet with Dershowitz before agreeing to the arrest and the seizure of the film...
...name suggests, Desideria has obsessions and longings of her own. She is an arresting character whose heartless voice dominates the narrative, cleverly cast as an interview: Moravia asks the questions and then ventriloquizes Desideria's bizarre tale...
...prose can get a bit steamy, especially when he intends to foreshadow ominous events. But once on the road, the author restores the tired abstractions of great Western space and silence with fresh feelings of motion and flight. Both animals and men are hunted in this hard though never heartless book. The prey die with fierce dignity and the predators do not gloat...
...inertia is inertia. His most extravagant object-20 tons of mutton fat cast into the form of a corner of a pedestrian underpass leading to Münster University, and now solemnly displayed in six pale hunks on the floor of the Guggenheim-was meant as a critique of heartless urban landscape, but its own megalomania crushes the small point it makes. On the other hand, Beuys is brilliant at using laconic, coarse, gritty, abandoned things to suggest a tragic sense of history. A case in point is his dreadful reliquary of Auschwitz, from the Stroher collection in Darmstadt...
...Daniel Berrigan, radical Jesuit: What the Pope has on his mind is what I have on my mind, the hideous nuclear arms race. He is not afraid to show his heart in the midst of a heartless world, a world of executioners, of mannequins and robots who coldly calculate the extinction of human beings. The great powers turn their backs. They say, "Aren't these fine sentiments?" But John Paul spoke to people, not to governments ... This is not to say that he sees the mote in his own eye. His views of women are old fashioned, and they...