Word: vue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Film Festival shows signs of becoming a kind of Pre-Vue Theater. There are no winners or losers, since no prizes are given. Over half of the 23 films presented this year at Lincoln Center will show up in regular theaters soon (in some cases only days) after their festival screening. Begun seven years ago as a showcase for the choice of the European festivals, New York's staid and sometimes pompous affair has thus each year become more and more a distributors' proving ground. Oddly enough, the attitude of the festival's sponsors doesn...
...Walls allows one indistinguishable chapter to fade into another. The story becomes a deja vue recounting of yet another round of position papers, unsure negotiations, and Rudd's explitives. The magnified detail often amuses--the story relates solemnly in a footnote how one of the authors was mistaken for an SDS negotiator and was handed a piece of rope. He hid it, he records for history, under a pile of monographs where it was soon forgotten...
...effet, partout dans ce recueil on voit l'effort des etudiants s'allier au passe: invocation de dates revolutionaires citations de St. Just, Babeuf, Bakounine, appel a un role historique ("Deculottez vos phrases pour etre a la hauteur des sans culottes.") Vue apres l'echec humiliante des elections, cette solidarite avec l'histoire est ironique et inquietante...
...squeezing colors directly from the paint tubes onto the canvas was largely inspired by viewing the Van Gogh exhibition of 1901. In addition, portraits such as L'Enfant Madeline betray a vestigial debt to Renoir's child portraits, while the pointillistic detail and balanced composition of Vue de Chatou suggest more than a few hours spent in the galleries studying the neo-impressionist work of Seurat and Signac...
...NATURE, once free for the staring, now crowded by the split-levels, becomes intimate in an outside-the-window plastic bird house called Vue-A-Nest, equipped with a one-way mirror so that ornithological voyeurs do not have to venture outside to see what really goes on among their feathered friends...