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Some years ago, Fellini remarked that "in the hands of traditional film makers, the cinema has become a form of art which allows no space for meditation." Like other great directors, Fellini, now 54, has shown other, younger film makers the possibility of finding such a space. It has been...
Why quibble? Call it 100% Dead and be done with it. Indeed, the cute title, like the pop-art credits and the ironically intended voice-over narration are in effect mortuary cosmetology-attempts to give an illusion of life to a moribund turkey.
Thus, in the iambics of his Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson voiced the anomie that propelled the ancient Greeks to embark on fragile craft in search of islands where life, far from the mainland tensions of politics and war, would be eternally serene. That urge-or illusion -has never been stronger...
I wonder, though, whether the appeal is inextricably tied to the evil--whether, for instance, the stability and sense of permanence I get from the South only grows out of its rigid racism and resistance to change. I suppose that to live there I will have to be able at...
Kissinger's recent failings may be a blessing in disguise for America. As long as he was able to produce the illusion that American foreign policies were responsible for keeping world-wide peace and were geared fundamentally to upholding democracy everywhere, there could be no basic reassessment in Congressional and...