Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is perhaps a touch of the dilettante in a man who -- with his eager, miss nothing eyes framed by horn-rims and a shy smile centered above his bow tie -- still looks like a cartoonist's vision of the brightest boy in class. But the intellectual restlessness that has kept Schlesinger circling from academic pillars -- Harvard, City University of New York -- to government and journalistic posts may have brought forth a certain freewheeling agility in the essayist...
Larson credits Don Martin of Mad magazine, George Booth of The New Yorker and B. Kliban, famed for his cat cartoons, with influencing his style; his work also seems informed by the bloated grotesqueries of Gahan Wilson (Playboy, The New Yorker). Nonetheless, Larson's vision is like no other cartoonist's. If a single theme animates his work, it is that man, for all his | achievements, is just one species on earth, and not always the wisest or strongest one. His prehistoric cave dwellers and chunky matrons with beehive hairdos and sequined glasses are vulnerable and foolish, while his cows...
...particular social class or geographic area. His principal characters may be anything from janitors to college professors, and his settings range from Vienna to Brooklyn to Missouri to Northern California, with numerous points in between. The common thread in Morris' stories, both early and late, is an odd, intense vision of life after nearly all passion has been spent. Well into their marriages, husbands and wives coexist in uneasy truces, wondering whether their remaining energies will run in tandem or blow each other apart...
...past quarter-century by Andrei Tarkovsky. The pleasures these films admit are rarefied: the meticulous placing of actors and objects in a frame, the charged and stately grace of a camera movement, the surreal images from someone else's dream. Yet you should also feel the spectacular unity of vision and visuals, of passion and method. Compared with The Sacrifice's art, the formal sophistication of even the best Hollywood movies seems superficially applied, like press-on nails and a styling...
...world in terms of individuals may succeed occasionally as a political tactic, but the tactic would never be consistently effective if such a view were not part of a deep and sincerely held vision. Reagan wholeheartedly seems to believe that individuals and stories about individuals are the keys to general truths. That vision can go crazily awry; Reagan is known for responding to general questions with irrelevant, albeit funny or touching, anecdotes. But the vision itself can be valid and clarifying. When John Donne wrote, "I am a little world made cunningly," it was a comfort to believe that...