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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than just stately choreography, they confront the key issues Antonioni has suggested ever since he first became an important force in the art. There is little use in even describing these moments, for they may strike almost everyone who sees them differently. They rely on the hope that the viewer cares about the problems Antonioni poses and cares to do the work he demands. Those who don't may end up giggling all through the movie, through its empty spots, through its stretches of desert. Those who do will be all the more rewarded by the fact that The Passenger...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Making the Audience Work | 5/9/1975 | See Source »

Though Ginandes's ambition to allow her subjects to supplement her pictures with their own words in order to provide the viewer with a more comprehensive impression of these women is sincere, the quotes are too long, repetitive and humorless. Worse, the photographs too rarely give us any insight into the character of the sitters. Those that do, like the picture of the lesbian couple sitting on the steps outside their apartment, their faces cool masks of defiant disdain, make the verbal statements superfluous...

Author: By Susan Cooke, | Title: Private Fantasies | 5/9/1975 | See Source »

...entering the Fashion Auditorium, the viewer is accosted by "Woman '75's" imposing stage which evokes the loud patriotic decor of Brigham's. The blue and white Boston 200 logo wallpapered around portraits of famous women and a starkly geometric waging flag in red and white form the backdrop of the stage. The WBZ program will lecture such dicers acts as the Caravan Theater, mush by Jade and Sasparilla, and an interview with Ms. Dukakis The women's history exhibit suffers under the onslaught of cameramen, glaring TV lights and coached applause. On the first day of the exhibit, "high...

Author: By Jan Nathan, | Title: Boston Women | 5/2/1975 | See Source »

...door-sized white panels, and a slide and tape presentation with separate viewing area set behind the rest of the exhibit. In each group, six panels are joined in a kind of flattened-sawhorse formation so that the panels participate in a connected, four-side, walk-around display. The viewer moves from group to group, circling each separate area. Over each section hangs a long blue banner with the Boston 200 logo and the single-word title of the group in white letters...

Author: By Jan Nathan, | Title: Boston Women | 5/2/1975 | See Source »

Standing on the right by the chair is a scrawny kid in a Little League cap. The look on his face is so serious and so intense that the viewer knows this kid was aware of the tremendous impact this picture would have on professional sports in the 20th century. That...

Author: By Michael G. Messerschmidi, | Title: Messing Around | 4/11/1975 | See Source »

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