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...began to wish I could close my eyes so I could stop looking at specific things as though they held messages for me to read. And then I became aware that I didn't want to listen to anything either, especially sounds that I felt I had to interpret as though they held the same significance as speech. Then even smells began to get obnoxious. Everything before my conscious senses seemed to be a human artifact (which is exactly the pop-art sensibility) and an object of culture. It's against obsessive analysis that my senses revolted, imposing a total...
Justice William O. Douglas, in dissent, said the Court should not have deferred to the White House and to Congress but should have carried out its duty to interpret the Constitution...
...stimulus-word, can be sure he heard the same work we did? These questions do not center, as they might under the "ideology of real life," on the problem of whether we should believe that what we are seeing actually occurred. Instead the central question is how to interpret the material we are watching, without forgetting that it exists only as film...
...Godard they have been a source of optimism, for they can grow up with a correct political education. Thus an adult male voice in See You at Mao (1969) occasionally reads sentences of a Communist history text to a young girl, who repeats them. Easy though this is to interpret as brainwashing, the absence of any criticism within the film reveals it as one of the purest hopes Godard still has. The thought that someone can learn the truth of history, and evolve a good way of thinking, without having to struggle through bourgeois thought as Godard has the last...
...interpret his plays, a good guide is a necessity. He exists in Martin Esslin (The Peopled Wound; Doubleday; $5.95). Author of The Theatre of the Absurd and Brecht: The Man and His Work, Esslin is a genial host of a critic. He shares an avant-garde playwright with his readers in the same enthusiastic way that he might recommend an excellent little restaurant slightly off the tourist track. The Peopled Wound is valuable not because it makes some intuitive new leap of insight but because it gathers in one convenient place most of what has been said and thought about...