Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These stories are the 27 labors of Mr. Palomar, held in focus by the farsighted vision of Italo Calvino, each sketch revealing a little more of Mr. Palomar's idiosyncratic view of the world...
...NAME CAPA evokes a vision of this giant photojournalist wading through war zones with bombs blasting, bullets flying, tanks roaring, with bodies strewn everywhere and nothing daring to touch this fearless...
...America to the U.S. Airplanes have long been a favored way to haul drugs, but federal authorities now use radar to track suspicious planes and keep watch on out-of-the-way airstrips. So smugglers have been trying to outwit police, and outdo James Bond, by using parachutes, night-vision goggles and radio beacons to make free-fall drops...
...aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains untouched. The Tree of Life dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare. There is the heroism of embattled migrants, some motivated by greed or propped up by drink, others spurred on by a vision of their God's imperative. There is also the tangled, hopeless enmity between the invaders and the natives and between the whites and the blacks who have been made slaves...
...formed parts. Likewise, Better Off Dead tosses on the screen a collection of objets trouves from past TSFs, woven together in a style that both draws on early TSF work (cf: Risky Business, Hot Dog) and yet sculpts a unique and, I believe, ultimately transcendent vision...