Word: orientale
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This week the Whitney Museum opens a major retrospective of O'Keeffe's paintings. It should scotch the myth of her provinciality forever. O'Keeffe emerges from it as an archetypal individualist who knew about styles other than her own, who delved back to the roots of...
Jaw and Strut. The first half of the film is devoted to apple-pie softness and bamboo resilience. In war movies of the '40s, the Japanese were a thin yellow line. Tora! Tora! Tora!* is a refreshing reversal. The Americans tend to blend into an indistinguishable potbellied mob. It...
One of the interesting things that goes on in North Vietnam is that they take very seriously the tradition of Oriental medicine. One day we visited the Oriental medicine institute in Hanoi where we learned that they regard the practices of Oriental medicine as a challenge to research. They are...
In the meantime you see throughout the country dispensaries of Western medicine side by side with dispensaries of Oriental medicine. Characteristically their interest in Oriental medicine is not tied to dogma. They simply realize that there is good reason to think that some of these practices are effective and they...
There is nothing simple about Santana's music. The group's second recording, Abraxas, released this week by Columbia Records, shows less propulsive violence than the first, Santana. What it offers instead is a rare poetic delicacy. Rhythms move in parallel layers, interrupting, overlaying, penetrating one another, multiplying...