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Throughout the day a shroud of secrecy covered Sioris's whereabouts as reporters from the CRIMSON were repeatedly told by spokesmen at the Marshal's office that "We just aren't able to tell you where Mr. Sioris will be eating lunch." However, after stumbling upon a meeting between Sioris and several Business School professors, a reporter was invited by Anderson to sit in for the last 15 minutes of the meeting...
Widerberg maintains a constant ambiguity between surface and sign, opposing the artificiality of political rhetoric to the down-to-earthiness of human detail. The organic symbol of blood seeping into a white shroud mocks the high drama of red banners at the same time it confirms their political justification, as it pierces the pastels. And still its truth is only transitory: waving the bloody shirt gets Sweden into the mess of Social Democracy. "Equality has not been achieved," Widerberg comments in the final credits, and open end to a negative political critique...
Ripped by two superhighways and three railway lines, the city is now a jumble of smoky factories whose fumes often shroud Mount Fuji in a brown pall. The port area of Tagonoura, once famed for its dazzling beaches, is a stinking cesspool. What has transformed Fuji is Japan's almost mythic urge for quick industrialization-with no environmental safeguards...
...Yoko Ono," and that the "introduction [is] by John Lennon." A large disc is cut from the yellow, and there in its place is a portrait of Yoko Ono. Black-and-white photograph, it has Yoko's grey face in the center, around that her black hair and shroud (which fall to the edge of the disc). and over that a white semi-halo. Across Yoko's black frontis are the magnificent gold letters g-r-a-p-e-f-r-u-i-t. But returning to yin-and-yang, what strikes one so about the portrait is that Yoko...
...exploitation, economic anguish, war and the threat of war-all those things that Marx had taught him would herald the destruction of capitalism were all about him. What fell from Chambers, as he explained, was not merely Communism but "the whole web of the materialist modern mind-the luminous shroud which it has spun about the spirit of man, paralyzing in the name of rationalism the instinct of his soul for God, denying in the name of knowledge the reality of the soul...