Word: illusioners
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To suppose that the Soviet Union would idly sit by and watch the dissolution of their power monopoly is and was an absurdity. All that has changed in the world situation is the escapist willingness of American leadership to believe that the nature of Communism could be anything but Communist...
As 1968 began, some of the most idealistic students set an example for their elders by avidly seeking reform through the political process. What they found instead was a seeming national swerve toward conservatism. The young, the poor, blacks and antiwar dissenters had profoundly affected government-something they once felt...
...works are illuminated disks set against a white wall. Others in the group vary widely but are united by a common dedication to "cool" materials far divorced from the conventions of oil paint and bronze-plastics, neon, acrylics, Plexiglas, aluminum. They also share a preoccupation with a visual illusionism that plays with space and color to make the eye see beyond the surface of the work, perhaps inspired by the clear, bright light of Southern California (on its non-smog-gy days). The result, if not so divergent from similar work in the New York orbit as the Californians like...
The trouble is that instead of being outrageously funny, The Legend of Lylah Clare is merely outrageously silly. The cliches don't click, though they are all there. They include the egomaniacal director (Peter Finch) who tells Star Novak: "You're an illusion. Without me you don'...
But for the record, Mayer and Babe have updated and rewritten the 15th century morality play to make the allegory relevant and accessible to the audience of 1968. A tired and neurotic God often hidden behind an American flag looks down on an illusion-ridden, somewhat desperate, party below. He...