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These two flaws, in our opinion, and especially the former, render this constitution unacceptable without prior amendment...
Ogni dipintore dipinge se, a Renaissance maxim ran: every painter paints himself. Steinberg's peculiar achievement has been to render this maxim, pruned of all expressionist content. What obsessively concerns him is the idea that each drawing remakes its author: it is a mask. The self-made artist is one of his favorite motifs, and certainly his most famous one: a little man grasping the pen that draws him. In this "self-portrait," artist and motif are fused, locked in a permanent logical impossibility that is also an ambition of poetry: Myself I will remake...
...unflinchingly patriotic Marine Corps captain (Bruce Dern) who is sent off to fight in Vietnam and a disabled and disillusioned veteran, played by Jon Voight. But beyond that, this film is about the aggression, insensitivity, and sexism; about the types of thought (or lack of it) that render these things acceptable. Although the film is set in Los Angeles in 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive, it is not a specific criticism of our Vietnam policies. Rather, it attempts to prove that the then--and perhaps still--conventional mode of constructing reality is not only inadequate but potentially...
...ingenious innovation, like the cruise missile, can render masses of tanks, even other missiles, almost helpless...
...after having killed Hotspur, this Hal cowers in horror rather than standing exhausted but moved. Ultimately, declaring in his final speech that the imprisoned Earl of Douglas should go "ransomless and free," Emerson does not seem to rise high enough above the warring elements of the play to render Hal's a truly reconciling offer...