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...North America and the Pacific playing counterpoint to 147 modern ones. In organizing the show, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture, William Rubin, has set out to unravel a knotty subject by bringing all the resources of current scholarship to bear on it while still leaving the viewer exhilarated by the beauty and intensity of the works. About four years in preparation, the exhibition is the cap of Rubin's career-one which, in recent years, produced MOMA's great shows of Picasso and late Cezanne. It involved close detective work in ferreting out not just...
Tugging the viewer through the streets and salons of la Belle Epoque Paris, Schlondorff offers less a version of Proust than a pictorial comment on him. For Proust the heavily draped and cluttered rooms, the constraints of clothing, language, manners and social ritual were familiar givens, matters for exquisitely observed, morally neutral description. For Schlondorff they are a malevolent astonishment. If there is a rational explanation for the obsessive, socially destructive love Charles Swann (Jeremy Irons) feels for the courtesan Odette de Crecy (Ornella Muti), it is to be found in these oppressive surroundings, where the very air breathes...
...could have been performed by almost anyone in the Louisville audience. Walters knew this, and perhaps it was inevitable that she would try to leave her own distinctive stamp on the proceedings. But she chose to make her pitch at the very beginning of the debate, when viewer attention was (hopefully) at its peak. With straight-faced regret she indicated the three journalists on the panel, and told America there should have been four. Why weren't there, Barbara? Because out of the 112 names submitted by the sponsor of the debate, the League of Women Voters...
Similar critiques can be made of post-debate commentary, and of the absurd practice of deciding who "won." Both practices tend to obscure what actually happened, and to leave a different image in the mind of each viewer. Why couldn't the League president have been the moderator? Why couldn't distinguished former elected officials, from all points of the political spectrum, have constituted the panel? At least then a tendency to digress from the true subject of the evening would have been understandable, even expected, and could have been expressly forbidden beforehand...
...associations of present to past in Swann's mind. A carriage ride hurtles his thoughts to a passionate tryst with Odette in the same carriage. The technique is confusing at first, since Schlondorf forswears the traditional wavering picture and weepy music school of flashback, but highly effective once the viewer becomes accustomed to the abrupt shifts from past to present...