Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twofold only: to see, to feel." The conviction advanced in the 1860s and '70s by the French Impressionists that seeing is equivalent to feeling has been present in photography throughout its history. But only recently, especially with the sudden increase of color work among serious photographers, has a painterly love and awe for pure optical effects impressively begun to displace the photographer's traditional documentary concerns...
...Oliver of the title is, of course, Oliver Barrett IV, protagonist of Love Story (played again by Ryan O'Neal), and the picture follows him through a couple of years (it seems like more than that) of mooning over his wife Jenny's untimely demise. He buries himself in idealistic lawyering and psychoanalysis, but remains immune not only to sex but even to quite innocent social overtures. Then one day in Central Park he encounters Marcie (Candice Bergen). Since she seems to have some of Jenny's smart-mouthed spirit, he manages at last to accept...
...amused by what he calls a "cultural radicalism": the decadence of American individualism. Its chief symptom: "The pursuit of happiness to the dead end of a narcissistic preoccupation with the self." The Narcissus of mythology, infatuated by his own reflection, pined away because he could not consummate self-love. Lasch's new narcissist has similar anxieties but feels no guilt. He has drunk the waters of progressive education and popular culture, and has little memory of traditional values and religious beliefs...
...Myself," Bacall describes her personal and professional life, concentrating on her love for her mother and for Humphrey Bogart, her husband for 12 years...
...Robert S. Brustein says he will not come to Harvard unit the spring of 1986, and that he will not take over the Loeb until "people start acting like they love me more." Labor czar Wayne Woodrow "Killer Woody" Hayes replies that he will appeal to the National Labor Relations Board to void the "adoration clause" in Brustein's contract...