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Philadelphia joined the gaping majority earlier this year, when its Bulletin folded, leaving the Inquirer as the city's only publishing daily. In Washington, the demise of the Star made the Post the only paper on the stands--until a peculiar competitor arose in the form of the daily Times, bankrolled by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon...
Komar, 39, and Melamid, 37, henceforth denoted as K & M, are both "dissident" Russian artists, who started exhibiting their peculiar team form of Pop conceptual art in the U.S.S.R. in 1972; in the fall of 1974, they took part in the still notorious "unofficial" art show on a vacant lot in Belijaevo, a suburb of Moscow, which was flattened by police bulldozers. Soon after that, they were able to arrange their departure for the U.S.A., where all art is ipso facto harmless. Do you long for the days when the old left was new? Then head...
...this is sophistry too in a way; for the deep pleasure in the making and keeping of an enemy lies not in his redeeming social value but in the peculiar passion he lends to life. There is simply no force in nature like him, none that can so suck the oxygen from the air, so tighten the skin about the ears, so clench the fists, sweat the palms, so press the tongue against the mouth's roof or stretch the nerves Like piano wires. His concentration on you is total. He cares more about your welfare than...
...bare numbers can't scratch the surface of the peculiar personality that made Weaver such a Baltimore--and national--institution. It's not that the Orioles won big, but that they won in such an emotionally satisfying way. Whether by the sterling defensive play, the properly executed cut-off throw, or the sublime curve on the outside corner, the Orioles nearly flawlessly performed the basic fundamentals that so flustered their competitors. They were a thinking-man's team in a thinking-man's game...
...wonderful cinematography serves as a visual stylization of Bob's world, containing as it does echoes of film noir as well as its own peculiar vision of Paris in the '50s. One of the most memorable shots is of the contrast in the still landscape of Montmartre at night. In the pitch black lower part of the frame only the sharply etched neon nightclub sign. "Pigalle," stands out, while above the dome of the Sacre Coeur cathedral is silhouetted against the mist. The music reinforces the fundamental contrast inherent in the film. It is magically distant and redolent of both...