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Solanas uses the aristocracy's own comment on images of itself to reinforce the overview of their antirational orientation he has already set up; their own baroque music to raise their monuments and cemetery to absurd heights of grandeur, to emphasize the stagnant, death-like concentration of wealth in this elite and isolated class. The clearly-drawn irony of the Argentine national anthem (sung by an opera singer in the European classical tradition), being dubbed over sordid scenes of a knife fight between hungry men and young boys and an old cripple waiting for a prostitute, exposes the fundamental contradiction...
Last December the English Department made a similar reform by providing opportunities for specialization in a specific field of literature in addition to the basic program which provides an overview of literature...
...contrast, the proposed change offers an English concentrator three options of study within the department, one of which would be the present basic study plan, involving an overview of English and American literature and criticism...
Third, Sarris's auteurism carries with it vast pseudo-intellectual pretense. Mr. Sarris may well be as prophetic about the careers of directors and their philosophic overview as Mr. Byron says he is, but the critical question remains "to what ends?" That question remains unanswered, lying forgotten somewhere between Ophuls's tracking-shots and John Ford's painted backdrops...
...stories of Harvard cops and robbers, punctuated with bits of dialogue, pieces of personal remembrances and a good-humored overview...