Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pushed against the grindstone of congressional pressures" to end the war on almost any terms. In this situation, an unprecedented four-day secret session was convened on Sunday morning, Oct. 8. The critical meeting was held in a house in suburban Gif-sur-Yvette, once owned by the French artist Fernand Léger and still adorned with his Cubist paintings and tapestries. Around noon, after Kissinger had laid out the essentially unchanged U.S. position, the North Vietnamese requested a break until four that afternoon...
While it may be easy to view the conflict as a minor struggle between one undergraduate artist's acting aspirations and another's directorial interpretation, in fact the issues are considerably more complex. No University-wide policy yet exists on whether one student has the right to implement his personal artistic vision even of excluding a superior actor because of his or her race. Under what circumstances can a student director become dictator, in usurping another's right to equal access to University facilities? Far from being an isolated incident, Hail's experience is reputed to be a common...
...props closet of King of Hearts and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tavernier merely dusts off a confusing collection of cliches. Most of the film has an aura of impenetrable mystery overlaid with a veneer of hastily added political significance. The whole production reeks of a talented artist lost in the complexities of a difficult subject. As the film progresses. The subterfuges that Tavernier resorts to become embarrasingly obvious...
...MARRIAGE of artist and theme with great potential for blasphemous offspring--Monty Python's Flying Circus dive-bombs the New Testament. Sort of like Jesus Christ Superstar to the tune of "I'm a Lumberjack...
...passion that has increasingly dominated Hawkes' recent books (The Blood Oranges, Travesty) is sex; The Passion Artist, his eighth novel, dwells still more obsessively on this subject. The title begins in irony. Konrad Vost is neither passionate nor an artist but rather an epitome of timid rationality. Hawkes stresses his hero's stylized anonymity, his "small perfectly round gold-rimmed spectacles, his two ill-fitting suits of black serge, his black turtleneck shirts, his pointed shoes that were always worn at the heels and covered with a faint dusting of powdered concrete from the walls of unfinished buildings...