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...painting his terrifying portrait of the fight waged on behalf of Milligan by lawyers and mental health experts to get him special treatment and a "not guilty" verdict, Keyes, unfortunately, downplays larger issues. Chief among these are the extent to which psychiatric problems should be allowed to change verdicts and the timeless dilemma of how to prevent judges and politicians from ignoring individual rights for their own aggrandizement or ambition. This is his principal flaw in an otherwise excellently researched and explained study. Keyes focuses heavily on Milligan's psychological composition and how it developed into a condition that spurred...
WHILE THE ESTABLISHMENT of an authentic base makes Sally's portrait refreshingly convincing, Conrad and Dall animate through the imposition of various cinematic devices. The first segment of the film, in prison, moves at a brisk pace--cuts are quick, shot-counter-shot and reverse angle sequences accent confrontational situations as in her appearance before the parole committee. When it comes time to cope with the outside world, the use of rapid zoom makes us actively feel the threat of her new environment. In filming elegant clothing, (objects of Sally's material aspirations), Conrad and Dall deliberately place the camera...
...turning, at midcareer, away from modernist fragmentation. Solid, chunky, driven, greedy: these adjectives apply to Kitaj's appropriation of the world-particularly the bodies of women-with line. Sometimes his egotism goes out of control or his taste fails him, or both, as in an absurdly paranoid self-portrait that looks like Jack Nicholson fried on acid. But when confronted with the posed model, in The Waitress or his various nude studies, Kitaj draws better than almost anyone else alive, taking on all the expressive and factual responsibilities of depiction and carrying most of them through...
Manifestly, it was still a long journey to world-class scholarship. Later volumes should be vastly enlightening, but it will be hard for them to top this portrait of the wise man as a young...
...nurtured on late Victorian intellectuality, steeped in 1930s radicalism and tempered by more than 30 years on Fleet Street. He makes no apology for his bookishness: "Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power." He draws a charming portrait of his father, who passed on his bibliophilia, and a colorfully contradictory one of his father-figure, Lord Beaverbrook. Foot reminisces warmly about his exasperating fellow journalist Randolph Churchill, but repeats the remark that he "should not be allowed out in private." He sketches a learned dissertation on the political...