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...everything the two fighters say and do, even in the things they own and the way they train. Ali's training camp in Deer Lake, Pa., overlooking Amish country, could be described as rich rustic. The $200,000 compound consists of five buildings in a log-cabin motif, including a fully equipped gym. Foreman trains in the drab mineral and gem exhibition hall at the Alameda County fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., near Oakland. For dressing quarters he uses the ladies' room...
...collection has no evident criteria of choice, for the Vatican, faced with the awkward but basic question of what a "religious" work of art may be, has been unable to find an answer. Instead, it has accepted anything that seems, however dimly or perfunctorily, to contain a religious motif-even decorous little landscapes whose views include a belfry or a church fagade...
...issue devoid of an Easter motif, running an article on St. Thomas Aquinas [April 15] was a good second best to the Resurrection of Jesus. In an era of philosophical and theological hopscotch, it is good to see that many can appreciate the one who transcends lifestyle, hope, change and the rest. The detractors of Aquinas clearly show that they have not read his works, and those who boast of the vacuous labels conservative or liberal do not realize that the pluralistic venture of seeking harmony between reason and faith has no need of such labels...
There was one motif-and, as this show inexorably suggests, only one-with which he was fully at home: the still life. Still life was the test bed of cubism-the static arrangement of homely objects, a glass, a bottle, a bowl, a newspaper, some cards or grapes, which could bear all the twisting and rotation and chopping that the cubist eye demanded. With a few rare exceptions, like Picasso's famous portrait of Kahnweiler or Gris's 1912 portrait of Picasso, the human figure, mutable and livery and emotionally expressive as it is, was not the ideal...
...REAL strength of the film I also mean all the details of its setting: the Coca Cola bottles and signs which constitute an almost obtrusive motif, an old gas station suggesting Walker Evans, the motor courts where these thieves live between banks, the jokes they tell, the contemporary radio programs on the sound track. But for these details to make out the world fully, they require a more extensive, exhaustive treatment than they are given, and less of the obvious hand in their choice. They need the scope of a novel, the fullness of Faulkner. Like the characters, each detail...