Word: rorschacher
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...Melvin Van Peebles advises, "The movie is a Rorschach test. Your perception of the past completely colors the way the movie strikes you." No doubt. But in offering the Panthers as idealists and objects of veneration to today's youth, the movie surely stands guilty of criminal naiveta. What's the politically correct term for whitewash? --Reported by Elizabeth L. Bland/New York
...sort of like a semester of building ourown Rorschach blots and then talking about it withthe professor," Cox says. "What was consideredgood use of the medium in which we were workingwas very arbitrary...
...image many people have of Harvard involves cocktail parties in New England estates, or a collection of famous faces: John F. Kennedy '40, T.S. Eliot '04, Norman Mailer '43. I think of it more like a Rorschach inkblot. If you look carefully, you can see those old-monied types with caviar and martinis. But in my little corner of the inkblot you're more likely to see slices of pizza and newspaper presses. I've not been plotting to take over the world in the last three years. I've just been learning how to survive--with as much style...
...some demented genius were there to film it. No names, no dialogue, no compromises, no exit. No apologies either, for Begotten is a spectacular one- of-a-kind (you wouldn't want there to be two), filmed in speckled chiaroscuro so that each image is a seductive mystery, a Rorschach test for the adventurous...
Whether in a book, in cinematic ventriloquism or in the dangling conversations of her radio and television interviews, Fisher's words work like a Rorschach test. What she says is often what you feel. She feels it too. "I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me," she explains. "I am somewhat nonplussed by the event that is my life...