Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less to do with his art than with the grass-roots Americana he celebrated, which has gone forever. Besides, they don't make them like Thomas Hart Benton any more, not with that salt and crust and feistiness and scrappy bouncing bigotry. It is not much solace to reflect that we still have plenty of artists whose work, though in a different way, is just as rhetorical and simple-minded...
...separate economy and energy programs proposed last week by President Ford and the Democratic majority in Congress reflect important philosophical divisions that presage a knockdown fight over the future direction of national policy. A comparison of the main points in each program...
Indeed, it was certainly premature, if not unfair, to fault the commission before its members had reported their findings and recommendations to Ford by his deadline of April 4. Still, Ford obviously had no intention of appointing a commission that did not reflect his own moderate-to-conservative point of view and that might unduly expose legitimate CIA activities. Thus, besides Rockefeller, Ford chose the following...
Clearly, the aim here is oblique; the all-star cast is being used to reflect some sort of distortion upon itself. Something should happen when Ingrid Bergman parodies her idealistic, spiritual Elsa of thirty years ago. Nothing does; it's played for laughs. Maybe when you have such an assemblage of fine actors and actresses, you assume they can take care of themselves. Lumet seems to have concentrated on keeping the dialogue sparse, and the characterization quick and neat. The result is like a museum restoration with a very serious curator but subject matter laughably warped out of shape...
...This is a tragic commentary on how little the chief foreign policy maker in the U.S. government really did learn from Vietnam, especially if he still considers the "use of force" an option in the Mideast. And no one should forget that President Ford says Kissinger's views "reflect...