Word: truth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like something else, and nothing is itself. And the unrelenting sun of California only intensified the shadiness. By the end of his career, in fact, Chandler was pulling off a series of bitter twists and brilliant turns on the paradoxes of illusion: the prim secretary from Manhattan is, in truth, from Manhattan, Kans., and turns out to be a tight little chiseler, while the movie-star vamp has a fugitive innocence the more theatrical for being real. Chandler's greatest technical flaw -- his way, ironically, with plots -- arose from the simple fact that he felt the only real mystery worth...
...into void. Diebenkorn's line learned its decisiveness in front of the model. It is clear and energetic, but less meaningfully so, in the earlier landscape abstractions. Some of these are beautiful drawings, but they are made-up images; they do not have the same stubborn pertinence to visual truth that the life drawings do, with their cutting line and their insistence that no part of the paper, marked or not, is really empty...
Diebenkorn sees drawing as a chain of events in which none of the links are hidden and every image carries the record of its own making, false starts and fresh turns included. It isn't so much a matter of spontaneity as of truth to the record. Painting covers the traces, drawing exposes them. So it is, especially, with the Ocean Parks, whose preliminary drawings in gouache and collage go right to the edge of being paintings in their own right; it is just that in a work like Untitled (Ocean Park), 1984, you see more of the process...
...court cannot be an umpire, deciding dispassionately on issues of law. While there are grains of truth in this perception, decisions such as the Yonkers case, which require the ongoing participation of a federal judge to ensure the equal rights of an entire class of citizens, reveal a judicial system which is coming into its own, not as an umpire, but as a relief pitcher for democracy...
...this movie is not purely, or even primarily, documentary. The truth of its testimony is not so much literal as gospel, using that term in its revivalist sense. Mississippi Burning is a cry of anguish turned into a hymn of desperate hope, a glory shout in which remembered indignities mingle with moral inspiration...