Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, Novelist Duffy (Wounds, The Paradox Players) contributed an essay about the sad post-Darwinian view of animals (as failed, and therefore negligible, members of the tree of life) to a book called Animals, Men and Morals. An ultra-worthy anthology, which goes way beyond anti-blood-sport rhetoric, Animals (Taplinger; $6.50) has been widely unread. Much of its message has been palatably repackaged as a sugar-coated pill in All Heaven in a Rage. Whether the public will lick off the sugar and leave the pill behind is a question. Timothy Foote
...characterization. In 1959, Truffaut was going to be a genius. He isn't, and it's because he hasn't tried. He simply doesn't want to tax himself, and he'd prefer not to tax us either. He could make forgettable movies; he does not. There is no paradox, only the director's caution. tuned to a precise knowledge of the familiar and the comic. Truffaut makes movies that are merely funny, but makes merely funny movies almost...
Cappella is a much more complicated, complete work through which we will be able to examine the author's life. Horovitz has said that a work needs the total enigma in order to find the ultimate hero. Cappella is an attempt at that paradox--the only trouble is that that paradox would make Horovitz the ultimate hero...
...paradox is simple: Why would a man with jazz in his head pick an African and three soul band session men as his rhythm section? The answer's someplace in Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory. The album isn't a noticeable improvement over Low Spark: the immediate impression is hypnosis, which is why so many have called it "soporic," Shoot Out is gripping, but on the subtlest levels...
This type of paradox made Ophuls's recent week-long visit to Cambridge exasperating indeed. He came riding a wave of enthusiasm and interest in his uniquely moving style of political documentary. (Certainly the people who ran his tour felt justified in overselling series tickets, then over-hyping the films, and finally scheduling them to be shown in places too small to accomodate the crowds they had drummed up.) His appearance was billed as a true combination of the political and the artistic...