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The Senator's withdrawal statement came in the form of a somewhat stilted five-minute videotaped speech on two Boston television stations. He alluded fleetingly to "the passions, on both sides, invariably inspired by any Kennedy campaign for President." But he gave no clear reason for his decision. Since the...
Hence, "In the American West" is not primarily a social document at all, though at first glance it appears to be. Avedon is not absorbed by the reporter's task of showing how these people look and dress, or with acknowledging the full range of their emotional lives. Instead, against...
Remember those home movies your crazy uncle would show at big family events? Everyone would gather round the screen to laugh at Aunt Bertha's swollen thighs, smirk at cousin Damien's antics, and smile at Grandma Smith's sweet girlishness as she shied from the camera's probing lens...
In part this is an optical effect--that of the telephoto lens, which replaces perspective recession with the layering of planes. Thiebaud keeps a telescope in his house, and prompts himself by looking through it. In paintings like Curved Intersection, 1979, streets rear up like the skycrapers that line them...
To convey Holden's view one would have to shoot the entire film with some special distorted lens or some especially brilliant acting that would expose the phoniness that Salinger's narrative so painfully conveys--say, making headmasters look more literally like dachshunds.