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ROCHA's dialectic ranges over all levels of film reality. In one sequence the old landowner's whore Laura stands in the center of a mid-shot, leaning on a balustrade with one plant in left frame balanced by one plant in right; close in back of her a flat...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Sophist Antonio das Mortes at Lowell House, 8 and 10 tonight | 12/4/1970 | See Source »

This is definitely a cinema of ideas, the clearest such cinema there's ever been, greatly superior in comprehensibility to anything Godard's ever done; indeed, it solves all the problems Godard's been worrying about recently. It's self-critical cinema which assumes the reality of nothing except the...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Sophist Antonio das Mortes at Lowell House, 8 and 10 tonight | 12/4/1970 | See Source »

In a way, the book has made Millett the Mao Tse-tung of Women's Liberation. That is the sort of description she and her sisters despise, for the movement rejects the notion of leaders and heroines as creations of the media?and mimicry of the ways that men use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who's Come a Long Way, Baby? | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

And the choice rules out, of course, all possibilities of argument. It is either or. Either the revolutionary has nothing to say to the oppressor or he is already assimilated. syncretized, digested as an alien but allowed point of view, to be heard but not listened to. For the same...

Author: By Jim Crawford, | Title: At the Cheri The Revolutionary | 8/4/1970 | See Source »

Music is being strangled by mechanisms or swirled to pieces by epiphanic happenings. His conclusion is that those who toil most glamorously at self-conscious modernity are those who have the least chance for valuable contribution. Integrity and "modernity," separate from formal exploration, are antagonistic. The past lives in the...

Author: By M. CHRIS Rochester, | Title: Igor Stravinsky Retrospectives and Conclusions | 5/20/1970 | See Source »

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