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...writing often is a kind of dream-work that can distill a sketch of a person or place down to a few quick words and turn it inward, making it a charged mental impression. It can be nightmarishly surreal...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Port of Call | 2/26/1981 | See Source »

...unexpected result of the methods used in constructing the exhibit, Teri Buchanon, spokesman for Chevron, notes, is that is contains no writers. "The creative process a writer goes through is so internal that it is extremely hard to document," she explains, adding, "They don't have sketch pads or lab notebooks. Everything goes on in the mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tribute to a Process, Not an End | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

Despite the danger, hikers are continuing to enter Point Reyes. At week's end the sheriffs department circulated a sketch, derived from the memory of a witness to one of the killings, of the face of the murderer who stalks the spectacular heights above the Pacific shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death Trail | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Indeed, the wide-ranging ideas and intentions embodied in Dadaism have been adopted and reworked in different ways by artists in each subsequent decade. The social and political commentary of George Grosz's "End of the Day" (a sketch of factory workers making the dismal trek home) and satiric "Bourgeois Society" resurfaced in the Social Realism of Ben Shahn and other American artists working in the 1930s. Several years ago a scandal ensued when the Guggenheim Museum cancelled a show of photographs of tenement housing on the grounds that the art was too "political...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: Dadadadadadadadadadadadadada | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

THIS FILM is director Weill's first foray into Hollywood-backed, large budget production. She also directed the promising independent production Girlfriends several years ago. It's My Turn has lost the special personal intimacy of Girlfriends without gaining in technical virtuosity. Its visually unengaging photography may sketch the plot, but is without artistic merit...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: The Vulnerable Career Woman | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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