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Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt at 6 and 9:30, with Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear at 7:50 (both through Tuesday...
Starting Wednesday: Shadow of a Doubt at 6 and 9:30, and Ministry of Fear...
...shops, in the factories. Locked into their own form of narrow white tribalism, whites deal with the blacks, pay them, talk of them in cliches, but do not really see them. Then there are "the blacks" as a large, looming abstraction, a vast uncertain threat. It casts an inevitable shadow over the heart breakingly lovely landscape, over everything that is done, every political act, every economic plan, every white hope. In the mind of the white South African, there is usually very little connection between the two incarnations: the houseboy, the factory worker, the shop assistant are so familiar...
...figurative in Diebenkorn's work seem not to matter. Beyond them, one sees the profound consistency with which he has pursued his essential lan guage as a painter - how the zigzagging pipes under the basin in Corner of Studio - Sink, 1963, relate to the angular chops of dark shadow in his earlier Berkeley landscapes, and are exquisitely refined in the later Ocean Parks; how the vitreous transparencies of his Californian rooms in the late '50s, gridded by mul lions and tabletops, become the sharp glazed intercuts of Ocean Park...
...years old. Schlumberger and a companion stalk the New York waterfront at night: "Now and then they entered the nimbus of a gas lamp hovering just over their heads like a phosphorescing sea creature. Schlumberger heard the sinister hiss behind the glass. One pace beyond the lamp his shadow was squeezing from under his heel squat as a dwarf, and four strides later it was a lanky giant being sucked headfirst into the dark...