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The shelves sag with books about World War II turned out by professional writers who served as amateur soldiers, and by professional soldiers who became amateur writers. The two groups often seem to be writing about different wars. Into the no-man's land between the two camps moves...
Three of the reproductions are in color. Eisenhower is one. Willem de Kooning's polyschizoid Marilyn Monroe is another, into which much can be read. The catalogue ends with the aggressive reds, oranges, and yellows of Karel Appel's Dizzy Gillespie, in which one can hear the searing screams of...
Right Face. Other Marxian imports are the nationalized foreign trade agencies. They also have proved a flop, the evidence being bare shop shelves and the sagging value of the Guinean franc. Toure has been forced to trim the power of the state import monopoly, allowing private traders to handle some...
The booming stereo market is usually taken as evidence that the U.S.'s appetite for culture is ravenous. But there may be another side to the record: the preoccupation with sound may really mean that the U.S. is growing increasingly tired of words. "The long-playing record has revolutionized...
Part One of the three confluent but contrasting parts of L'Avventura (The Adventure) is set on one of the Aeolian Isles, crests of a vast sunken crater in the Mediterranean. By placing his characters in this dead volcano. Antonioni clearly intends to suggest that they are spiritually extinct...