Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Director Larry Peerce has produced some rare moments of social criticism in this film, but he frequently slips into burlesque. Nevertheless, Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw save the show with skillful performances...
...South Viet Nam does go Communist, will the danger for the rest of Southeast Asia be insurgencies, or will it come more from failure to solve social and economic problems...
Dance of Counterparts. "For most people," says Curator Samuel Sachs II, who organized the exhibition, "the century begins in 1870 with the Impressionists." In reality, as his show demonstrates, it began in 1789 with the French Revolution, which sundered the economic and social structure that had given baroque culture its unity. The pent-up forces of individualism that were released found a counterpart in a new esthetic freedom that, with the Impressionists, would climax in a complete shattering of form and balance...
...AFTERNOON in snatchland wasn't a total loss. I learned two new positions. Which brings us precisely to the point. As long as pornography must masquerade as art and display redeeming social value it will not be able to do what it can do best. What good pornography can do best besides titillate, is educates. As long as public schools refuse to instruct people visually in the arts of sex. Pornographic films will perform a vital function of introducing people to the appearance and interesting use of sexual organs...
...course none of this means that movies should be censored or directors shouldn't show all they feel necessary. It merely means that it takes a master to combine elements of transcending art with a genre which insists on spelling everything out. So why ruin pornography with redeeming social value? Because I Am Curious would have been a better films if all that remained was a lot of snatchshots and strange positions...