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...measure of Kubrick's artistry that he states his only supernatural theme, that of reincarnation, so lightly that it could be missed entirely. One has to connect the enigmatic scene involving a nude woman in Room 237 with the film's last image, of a photograph taken in 1921, in order to apprehend it. That, too, could be a false clue, since everything Nicholson does can be attributed to psychosis, to a weakened mind placed under intolerable pressure by isolation...
...leaves Channel 56, secretaries clutter around for signatures and as she writes our her name on someone's napkin, she asks one woman what kind of perfume she is wearing and another where she got her arm's length of bracelets. McGraw even consents to posing for a photograph with a man who "wants to drive his wife nuts." She says she doesn't enjoy it but realizes its part of the job. A real trooper. But the caravan is rolling and she enters the waiting van for the next appointment...
...turns, smiles for a photograph, offers half her sandwich to a reporter, and heads for the old age home across town...
...Peabody Museum, a research-oriented institution with modest exhibition facilities, will receive $150,000 to restore, organize, photograph and ship artifacts from its collection. The art, history and general museums that will exhibit the Peabody artifacts will use the remaining funds to organize the exhibits and prepare interpretative brochures, lectures, maps and labels...
What remains most heartening and absorbing about "The Automotive image" is the quality of cheerful, reckless perception on view in the best work, betokening as it does an anarchic embrace of everything that exists--everything that exists and that can be photographed--despite and including the world's meanness, violence, and disorder. Even the most coolly-pictured scenes convey a sharp sense of the photographer's elation in the face of his medium's immense range, its omnivorousness. Consider, as a final example, James Bodo's color photograph showing a "Putt-Putt" miniature car raceway, empty and sheeted in snow...