Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without the Kaiser's empire, Nolde might not have seen the African carvings he parodied in Masks, 1911; three years later, bubbling with fantasies about noble savages, he went to Melanesia with a German expedition, and his ideas of the racial purity of primitive societies led him to an early membership in the Nazi Party. (The relationship between Nazism and expressionist painting was, as Selz discreetly suggests, a good deal less antagonistic than is usually supposed.) But if the cult of the primitive was one aspect of expressionism, the scrutiny of the far less familiar recesses of the psyche...
...cataclysmic spirit of the rock-'n'-roll revolution of the 1950s. Audiences who care little for rock should stay away, and so should anyone who expects movies to offer a credible plot. American Hot Wax is largely meant for a hard-core crowd-the moviegoers who have seen Saturday Night Fever three times and are desperate for a new rock-film...
...answer: c. In the most recent ratings week, the 60 Minutes team of Dan Rather, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace was seen by more households than Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch and all but five prime-time offerings. CBS's excellent decade-old magazine-style show this season has regularly finished in the top ten, demolishing the myth that there is no way a network can make money-or big Nielsen points-on news...
...effect of distorting black realities has greater consequences. That is the subtle but important difference. Whites, for one thing, are seen in the widest possible variety of shows on TV-dramatic programs, adventures, news specials, sitcoms and so on. (The quality of comedies about whites is occasionally better too: witness The Mary Tyler Moore Show.) Blacks, on the other hand, inhabit a restricted range of TV formats; apart from their roles as local newspersons and a peppering of parts on integrated shows (a smart detective on Police Woman, for example), they are mostly seen in situation comedies...
...black sitcoms can have excellent intentions, but something about them is troubling. As seen by Topper Carew. who produced children's programs like Rebop, most of the shows are merely projections of what whites think black life is like: "I wouldn't call them black shows. They have a with very black heavy people black appearing presence. on That's them." all. They are white shows As matter of equilibrium, perhaps there ought to be some dif ferences between the standards that are applied to TV about whites and TV about blacks. Is that an unfairness doctrine...