Word: krafts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joseph Kraft was the funniest, frantic in his role as the guardian of the nation's self-image. In a column called "Nashville, the motion picture, tries--but fails--to tell what's wrong with America," Kraft points out the danger of trying to sum up the country. Indeed, "the analytic tools shaped by the likes of Marx and Freud have come to grief trying to define what's wrong." Leading into an interpretation of the film, he writes that "the film's view of the nation's flaws is so general and so wrong that it seems useful...
...says. In fact, the Nashvilleans represent "a tiny segment of" American life. "These people do not have real decisions to make. They concern themselves chiefly with appearance and image. If they fall, they must move on. Inevitably their lives are hollow, their values shallow," Kraft admits that sometimes, "on the campaign level," politicians may concern themselves with image to the detriment of the people, but most of American politics and American life is characterized by "different, indeed opposite features." One wonders what he was doing from 1968 to 1974, or whether he ever cast his syndicated eye upon the White...
...Kraft can rest easy; Altman evades the trap of defining America. Indeed, in making Nashville, he jettisoned (with a couple of exceptions that mar the film) the last obstacle to making a purely descriptive movie: he junked the concept of the filmmaker himself. Opal, the BBC reporter, busily chronicling American and acting sillier than the Nashvilleans, is a parody of Altman. And the cookbook critics, trying to get a grip on themselves, string adjectives together searching...
...paper event" itself is what Mallardi refers to as a "structured improvisation." As choreographer she provided the structure long strips of kraft paper which the dancers contemplate, hug, tear into balls, build with, and eventually, abandon. But the dancers-a mixed group of Harvard students and the "outside people" who have come to study with her-have to make something of the structure, leaving the "paper event" as much theirs as it is Mallardi...
Ford encountered mounting criticism from political pundits who accused him of talking too freely to reporters, allowing policymaking in the White House to become chaotic and not properly rationing his time. Argued Columnist Joseph Kraft: "The President's men are going to have ... to make time for him to concentrate on the truly difficult problems which face the country...