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...straight side of a bottle seems to waver, it only does so to remind us how mutable and hard to fix the act of seeing really is. And if the shapes look simple, their simplicity is extremely deceptive; one recognizes in it the distillation of an intensely pure sensibility, under whose gaze the size of the painting, the silence of the motif and the inwardness of the vision...
...United Nations, began to outline the current ideological position of the right in her 1979 Commentary article, which included these lines: "The relative lack of concern of rich comfortable rulers for the poverty, ignorance, and disease of 'their' people is likely to be interpreted by Americans as moral dereliction pure and simple...Because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope.." Read it a hundred times; wince a hundred times. In the specific case of El Salvador, and Latin America, the Reagan administration argues that...
...most Americans the idea of sterilization abuse conjures up images of Nazi Germany and Hitler's push for a pure race. Few Americans would believe that sterilization abuse continues in their public hospitals, as well as on Native American reservations. Fewer still would realize that hysterectomy (removal of the uterus and tubal ligation) is fast becoming the most frequently performed operation on this nation's women...
...whose work has decorated lawyers' offices for almost a century. Those with a taste for more recent vintages may find them in the pages of Man Bites Man, Two Decades of Satiric Art (A & W; 224 pages; $29.95) edited by Steven Heller. Although a few illustrations are pure character assassination, most are lampoons of contemporary trends. Gahan Wilson's Senators complain about environmentalists through gas masks; Ronald Searle's bird finds the sky too crowded and decides to walk; Bill Lee's pilgrims beg heaven for a sign and are rewarded with one: WELCOME...
...self. Although it has plenty of impact, Ticket is often too busy being outraged to bother with niceties of characterization and plot. (Just how does David become converted? At what point does he snap out of it?) And so it ignores the central dilemma: that kidnaping an adult, however pure the motive or dear the victim, is against the law. Like a strident TV-news exposé, Ticket aims for the jugular instead of the mind-Geraldo Rivera moviemaking...