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...choked by boredom"). Mikhalkov could also use some of Renoir's toughness of mind and poetic genius. The Rules of the Game dared to dissect contemporary France; A Slave of Love is essentially a safe nostalgia piece. Where Renoir merged theme, style and narrative into a seamless whole, Mikhalkov must shift gears as his film moves among its various concerns. A Slave of Love is further afflicted by a dippy sound-track score, but such flaws are a real part of this picture's appeal. Somehow it is reassuring to know that the West does not have...
...stark vision of life, and sometimes a clinical view of love, against meticulously researched professional backdrops. The Last Adam (1933) was about a doctor; Men and Brethren (1936) was about a minister; The Just and the Unjust (1942) and By Love Possessed (1957) about lawyers. Cozzens' plots are seamless and compelling, his protagonists unromantic, conservative and admirable for their maturity and self-discipline and for doing the best they can with what they have. "I have no thesis," he once said, "except that people get a very raw deal from life." The day before he died he looked over...
...author also explores the dark division of his Western heart. He invokes Kierkegaard's "sickness of infinitude" and looks back wistfully to a presumed time when ancient mystics and so-called children of nature were said to view existence as whole, seamless cloth. Matthiessen skillfully condenses philosophies, religions and ideas, but pays for stylistic niceties with oversimplifications. To write, as he does, that "the advent of the industrial revolution made new barbarians of the peoples of the West" says nothing about the old barbarians who existed in those fabled holistic ages. Was there ever really a time when mankind...
...suddenly occurred to me," says Dantzic, "that I had no camera in my studio that could do that." After more than a year of inquiries, he found and borrowed the camera he wanted-a turn-of-the-century model called the Cirkut. Soon he was obsessed with the seamless panoramas he was able to produce with it. Some 20,000 miles and 280 exposures later, Dantzic's obsessions went on display: last week twelve views of U.S. cities and landscapes, ranging in length from 61 in. to 78 in., were exhibited in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...music, just as he revels in the seemingly contradictory influences that molded him since he began improvising piano exercises to relieve the boredom of daily lessons when he was a kid. He counts for major inspiration the metric acrobatics of Dave Brubeck's Take Five and the seamless jazz fantasies of Oscar Peterson. He dreams of the day Ray Charles will pull one of the best songs out of the Joel portfolio, "and I'll hear New York State of Mind at the World Series." He prides himself on being a rocker, but wears a tie and jacket onstage...