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The audience, able to this point to watch the imprecise vision of the players, is suddenly confronted with a questioning of its own perceptual powers: the deliberate half-illusion of Mark shooting a policeman. In fact, the gun isn't out of his boot when the shot is fired. Antonioni...
Daria's fantasy is childish and petulant if we take it, purely as a mind-projection resulting from unsupressable hostility toward the System. Applying it to her character, the montage confirms Daria's tendency to retreat into self-gratifying illusion when faced with actual degeneration, thereby failing to deal with...
Lewis Kampf. a professor of Humanities at M. I. T. charged with trespass, said yesterday that the trial would be "educational for those under the illusion that M. I. T. has room for everybody." He denied that he was guilty since "there were hundreds" of other faculty members in the...
One day in 1964, Dine saw an advertisement for a bathrobe in the New York Times. "There was nobody in the bathrobe," he explains, "but when I saw it, it looked like me." He made a series of self-portraits based on that image, including the Double Isometric Self-Portrait...
Chambers is sometimes cheerfully diverting. He discourses on mushrooms. He jocularly informs Buckley that his son John is a "great eater of your whoreson flapjacks." He passes along crazy, bullish stock market tips-some of which turn out to be crazy like a fox. Reformed revolutionaries, Chambers observes wryly, when...