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...FIRST PARADOX: Barry Lyndon, a story of an 18th century Irish gentleman-rogue, is the first novel of a great 19th century writer, William Makepeace Thackeray. It shows early signs of a genius that would nourish only after creative struggle and personal adversity. In time, this forgotten book becomes the basis for the tenth feature film by a well-established, well-rewarded 20th century artist-Director Stanley Kubrick. In it, he demonstrates the qualities that eluded Thackeray: singularity of vision, mature mastery of his medium, near-reckless courage in asserting through this work a claim not just to the distinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KUBRICK'S GRANDEST GAMBLE | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...SECOND PARADOX: As he did in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick relies not on words -he is as sparing of them as Thackeray is profligate-but images to tell his story. Yet Barry Lyndon lacks the experimental, hallucinatory visual quality that made 2001 a cultural touchstone of the tripped-out '60s. Kubrick has shot and edited Barry Lyndon with the classic economy and elegance associated with the best works of the silent cinema. The frantic trompe 1'oeil manner -all quick cuts and crazy angles-recently favored by ambitious film makers (and audiences) has been rigorously rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KUBRICK'S GRANDEST GAMBLE | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

This is a tinderbox of a play blazing with wit, paradox, parody and, yes, ideas. It is exhilaratingly, diabolically clever. The bloodline of Wilde and Shaw is not extinct while Tom Stoppard lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Dance of Words | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...painful massage that seems to have been developed during a subway rush hour. The purpose of these activities is to shut out the world, to listen to the wisdom of one's body Goodman finds that such pursuits are surprisingly effective-although success can be full of paradox. "Concentration is effortless effort, is not trying, " claims Tim Gallwey, a former follower of Guru Maharaj Ji and author of The Inner Game of Tennis. Goodman gives it a try and improves his serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Head Game | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

According to conventional economic theory, when unemployment is high and factories are running at less than full tilt, prices are not supposed to shoot upward. Increasingly, however, they have-as indeed they are doing now. That anomaly poses a formidable challenge to economists, and it is the paradox to which John Kenneth Galbraith addresses himself in his latest book: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (Houghton Mifflin, $10). His conclusion: "Corporate and union power" is the heavy; it "can defeat efforts to combine high employment with stable prices" regardless of the state of business, and can be curbed only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEORY: High Noon for Galbraith | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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