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By the 16th century, screen painting had become as central to the visual culture of traditional Japan as fresco painting was to Italians. The very size of byōbu-which run to a width of twelve feet and more-was an exacting test of the painter's virtuosity...
"Making Alex was the best working experience I've ever had," Sutherland continues. But then he yawns, even though you know it must be the exhaustion that is setting in. "A film is satisfying to me when its reality represents something I see in the world. Films should provide a...
For the extremists, the first signal illumination came in the explosion last March that ripped up a Weatherman bomb factory in Manhattan, killing three members of the group. Weatherman activity declined, and then, early in December, Fugitive Bernardine Dohrn, one of the group's leaders, issued a manifesto that was...
The years have taken their toll, and the strain shows in Cushing's craggy, furrowed face. He suffers from asthma, emphysema, ulcers and cancer. As the longtime spiritual adviser of the Kennedy family, he has been devastated by their tragedies. "It seems that all my troubles have come in...
Where American poetry has always been inseparable from its origins, remote and rational, obsessed with the poem's existence as an aesthetic mode. Latin-American poets, Germans, Eastern European writers have all shared in the premise that the poem is essentially non-rational; it possesses a logic derived from the...