Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FOLK ART IN AMERICAN LIFE By Robert Bishop and Jacqueline M. Atkins (Viking Studio Books; $29.95). Like jazz, folk art resists the advances of formal criticism. So it is a relief to hear the authors conclude their scholarly preface with the statement, "Let the objects themselves speak to the intellect, to the senses, to the spirit." That is precisely what they do in this survey of down-home paintings, needlecraft, carvings and sculpture, like Clark Coe's wood-and-metal Man on a Hog. Most ambitious of all are the free-spirited constructions like James Hampton's altar assembled from...
Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style--as writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in Heat, his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America. It also becomes a critique of pure reason. For Neil is placing impossible demands on himself, on his associates, on a chance universe in which they inhabit one of the chancier corners. He can't prevent himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent...
Neil McCauley (Robert de Niro) is an orderly and calculating bank robber. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) is a disorderly and incautious Los Angeles cop on McCauley's trail. "Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style. As writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in 'Heat', his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America," says TIME's Richard Schickel. With what may be the best armored-car robbery ever placed on film, Schickel notes Mann is seeking...
Friends described Amir as a reticent, friendly law student with a keep intellect. At home, he was always willing to help his neighbors, but mainly kept to himself. We have seen this man before...
DIED. LINDA GOODMAN, 70, writer; from diabetes; in Colorado Springs. Entertaining prose and easy-on-the-intellect pop psychology made Goodman's 1968 Sun Signs the first astrology book to scale the New York Times best-seller list, creating the mass market for mysticism that haunts us still...