Word: intentionally
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These and others of the paintings of George Catlin (1796-1872) have been specially selected and hung in the National Museum of American Art in Washington this summer by Curator William H. Truettner, with the intent of demonstrating that Catlin was not just a prime chronicler and champion of the beleaguered American Indian-which he was-but also a considerable artist in his own right...
...entire scene is filled with such delicacy--never in a film has there been a better exploration of unfaithfulness with all its anticlimactic manifestations--that it's clear Passer is something of a visionary. Or more importantly, he's a visionary without epic pretensions. Perhaps it's his intent all along to refuse the easy ending and the easy transition. Perhaps it is not so much inability to make a satisfying film, as it is that he wants to break the whole cycle of expectations the audience has had. Perhaps he's just a bit ahead of himself...
Television is the most widely shared experience in this diffuse country. That alone would make it a natural target for zealots of the New Right, intent on proving their political muscle. TV, moreover, is omnipresent in home and family life, and Christian conservatives see the family as endangered. They contend that TV reflects-indeed, often promotes-the gratuitous sex, profanity and violence of contemporary society, thus bringing moral decay into the home...
LOITERING WITH INTENT by Muriel Spark Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 217 pages...
Today, 13 clever and elegant novels later, the question still stands. Loitering With Intent may be as close to an answer as Spark intends to give. Her heroine, Fleur Talbot, is an English writer not unlike herself starting out in a London bed-sitter three decades ago. She takes a job as secretary to a dotty group calling itself the Autobiographical Association, and quickly progresses from helping the members with grammar to embellishing and inventing the very lives they are recounting...