Word: imperfectability
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Audiences interested only in nostalgia should not see Follies now. Let them wait until it is revived in, say, the mid-1980s. Then this imperfect but glittering production will be an item of genuine nostalgia?the show that turned the American musical theater around and pointed it forward...
...always both difficult and important, whether its impetus comes from the admonitions of the Bible, Freud, or Fritz Perls. Perhaps for those of us who attempt by our own actions to change the perception and reactions of others, it is even more so. But despite the disadvantages of imperfect resistance tactics and despite the confusion I suspect many of us feel within ourselves, we must continue to protest against the outrageous. The war and the injustice continue. And while they do, only the most dexterous among us can successfully wash his own hands and afford the luxury of turning inward...
...this case, to proceed from the anti-aesthetics of the forms one utilizes and to find a corresponding new language, new expression.... We, from Argentina, trying to create a new cinema, a cinema of poetry and polemical essay, call for works in progress, for unfinished works of art, for imperfect works...
Middle-class ennui in a faltering social system is certainly an acceptable subject for a film, and even an imperfect treatment is far better than another commercial exploitation of the revolution. The subject, though, is too vague and ill-defined to be reduced to the microcosm of three lives. In his rambling, understated style, Cassavetes does stumble on moments of revelation-Archie not knowing what to say to his whore, Harry drinking tea in his London illusion, Gus coming home to his crying daughter. But he tries to make a great work out of understatement and understatement resists greatness...
...only fatal crash of American scheduled airlines in all of 1970. So superb a safety record suggests that something much closer to complete safety in the air may not be impossible. But as the still-grieving campuses of Marshall University and Wichita State University attest, it was a disastrously imperfect year for nonscheduled charter flights...