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...sequences like these Godard raises complex questions with the simplest of material. The method by which their images and sounds are internally constructed and externally combined provides a discourse that clarifies the meaning of each separate sequence. Form, by directly realizing material, shows the right way to analyze...
...refusal to make any gesture for the sake of effect. Every work in this show, from the earliest calligraphic wash drawings to the recent ones, like Road Past the View, stands to the art of painting as Shaker barns do to architecture-plain, the forms reduced to their simplest and most mysterious denominators, not an ounce of fat left. She works on a level of strenuous responsibility that other American figurative artists never reach, or attain only in brief spurts. This lean resilience is as distinct in O'Keeffe's early landscapes of upstate New York, like Lake...
...simplest terms, the enormous demand for energy is catching up with supply. With $100 billion already invested in plants, equipment and transmission lines, the electric industry must double its facilities...
Given a rather earthbound production by England's Nottingham Playhouse company, A Yard of Sun still rises to Fry's characteristic pitch, which might be described as cheeky-cosmic. The simplest of his characters can spin out rococo banter about the universe, God and the meaning of life. The setting is a courtyard in Siena, Italy, in 1946. The occasion is the reunion of four men back from the war-a refugee from a concentration camp, a doctor who was a partisan guerrilla, a would-be politician who joined the fascists, and a black marketeer who made...
...what Novelist Saul Bellow calls "a kind of totalitarian cruelty, like Hitler's attitude toward Jews." It is as though the aged were an alien race to which the young will never belong. Indeed, there is a distinct discrimination against the old that has been called ageism. In its simplest form, says Psychiatrist Robert Butler of Washington, B.C., ageism is just "not wanting to have all these ugly old people around." Butler believes that in 25 or 30 years, ageism will be a problem equal to racism...