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...attitudes towards the medium of film have resulted in artists whose creativity includes new way of using celluloid Of these artists. Stan Brakhage (whose work is currently in a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York) is the fore runner. Brakhage hand-paints 8, 16, 35 mm and Imax film stock sometimes using a technique which lets him paste translucent objects onto the film. Brakhage seems to tap into a deep level of emotion by projecting his tiny, beautiful swirls of color onto the large screen. The breathless tension of these intimate films reveals the influence...
...this week. The news broke the spell of silence, and a society long cowed by terror erupted with relief. The President's security forces indulged in a daylong binge of celebratory shooting. "The war's over! We won! This is democracy!" a policeman shouted as he fired his 9-mm pistol into the air. Middle-class women laden with jewelry and dressed in tight-fitting Western clothes waved flags from the windows of cars that sped through Algiers with horns blaring. Temporarily at least, the Establishment had lost its fear of the guerrillas...
...State Arts Museum, he began obsessively photographing illustrations, lithographs, old prints and any other images within focal reach of his Leica. In 1935 Bettmann fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. with $5 and his father's best suit. He also took with him two steamer trunks of exposed 35-mm film. This trove grew into what Bettmann, a courtly scholar as well as a clever businessman, proudly merchandised as a "complete history of civilization...
...Friday some compliance with the agreement had begun. Journalists were taken by Bosnian Serb authorities to witness removal of three T-55 tanks, three 105-mm howitzers and several mortars, but the journalists were not allowed to see where the weapons were taken. The airport was reopened after having been shut down for five months, and the first flight in carried French Defense Minister Charles Millon with a shipment of flour. Several more aid flights arrived Saturday. At the same time, two U.N. relief convoys rumbled into Sarajevo with minimal harassment at Bosnian Serb checkpoints...
...like Reno's. No place can. The stadium is enormous, a city-block square; the gift shop alone is 11,000 sq. ft. The 80 bowling lanes can be covered over to make 38,000 sq. ft. of convention space. A 172-seat theater opened last week, with 70-mm showings of To Fly and a Reno travelog on a four-story screen. Pearson is already booking the theater for lectures and the space outside for a wide array of events, such as an auction in which 1,000 Harley-Davidsons will be displayed on the stadium's gleaming approaches...