Word: illusioners
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War? The word had an odd, almost atavistic ring as the bulletins broke in on America's quiet Saturday morning, blaring that Israel and her neighbors were once more locked in full combat (see THE WORLD). With the U.S. finally disengaged from its ordeal in Viet Nam and embarked...
But the specific works are less important than the atmosphere Disney created. Art, or some kinds of it (visionary, surrealist, erotic), has the power to expand the limits of fantasy. Disney could not push those too far without ceasing to be Mr. Clean, the celluloid geneticist who ingeniously bred the...
To deal in illusion but not be dismissed as an illusionist is the nearly unsolvable problem of a writer like Julio Cortazar. For him the short story is the perfect form - a fine dazzle, then a quick curtain and nothing left but spots on the retina. But an entire collection...
Believing that genocide and a criminal war, with all their fascistic connotations, cannot have an American form is a comfortable illusion, one--if we are ever honest with ourselves--that will come unraveled in time. The fact remains that for acts analagous to those ordered in Indochina, Germans were convicted...
Kempton attempts to heighten ev ery detail into the importance of gen eralized truth. "Michael Tabor," he writes of one defendant, "had an intensity that overrode mere precedents; by mere presence, now and then un abashedly malign, he enforced the illusion that the insulted had come to vengeance." The language...