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...many images in the film that have reference to Catholicism, Friedkin notes: "These things tend to appear...symbolic of something greater, but they're not meant to be." In the same vein, Friedkin says he was not conscious of the implications of "The Exorcist" for deeply religious people...
Unbroken, but enlarged. Neil Young also has a record due out at the end of the month, a supple set of 10 ravishing songs called Harvest Moon (Reprise) that returns to the softer, folk-accented vein of earlier hits like Harvest. Lucinda Williams shows a bluesy heart and a folk spirit in her recent Sweet Old World (Chameleon/Elektra), and an intrepid small record company in New Jersey called Bar/None has a real comer in Freedy Johnson. His album, titled Can You Fly, features the idiosyncratic singer-songwriter stalking his own subconscious, sounding like a cross between Hank Williams...
Where shall I turn, divided to the vein...
...premise of the book is that modernism is a heartening enterprise, a celebration, and should be recognized and applauded as such. Modernist "primitivism" in the vein of Picasso, Derain, Lachaise and Matisse was an attempt to reinvigorate culture, to rediscover the visceral in art, and its impact was a widespread and undeniable celebration of the senses, from Picasso's "The Race" (painted in 1922, the same year as Ulysses and "The Waste Land") to Josephine Baker's Paris performances to the jazz rage of the 1920s and 1930's. Modernism brought with it a sense of sophisticated gusto. It seemed...
...very next day in the Louisiana Superdome, Clinton attacked Bush for failing the ultimate values test -- the willingness to assume responsibility for one's own shortcomings. "That was some piece of work," says a Bush campaign official, "and I'm sure we'll be hearing more in the same vein. We're trying to remind people of Clinton's sordid past, and he's saying the President lacks the guts to face his own complicity for what's wrong. We look cheap, and Clinton looks presidential...