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...photos has created, in some quarters, the impression of an affinity with the much touted American "New Realism." Not so. The neorealist effort-air-brushed Volkswagen bumper bars, Los Angeles parking lots, horse postcards, the whole post-Pop iconography of deadpan images-is merely an absent-minded rumination on fact, painting reduced to bland, mechanical transliteration. The method precludes light and atmosphere, and silences all dialogue between brush-work and image. New Realism is the limp, ineloquent salon...
...board, there will undoubtedly be changes. Only three of the school's 19 teachers have New York City certification, for example. Carpenter himself lacks the administrative credentials required for principals. If the standard public school rules are applied to Harlem Prep, security guards will patrol the halls, absent students will be considered delinquent, and anyone over 21 can be barred (Harlem Prep has taken students as old as 28). While board spokesmen have said that they are sensitive to the spirit of Harlem Prep, one official has already suggested that it might be moved from the brightly lit supermarket...
...past 20 years, notes Landau, movie attendance has plummeted from 80 million a week to 14 million. Many of the absent 66 million are simply staying home to watch TV, but some others, Landau argues, constitute a "special audience who were not getting what they wanted" at the movies. "There is an enormous thinking public that wants something else," says the enthusiastic Katharine Hepburn, "and this is what we hope to capture...
...louder volume. The result is a nasal blaring sound, like something that would come out of the PA system at a Nixon rally. The upper level is a better place to listen -- if only because the trolleys are better equipped to drown out the melody. But when they are absent, the high-decible Muzak is nearly unbearable...
...million for new development projects in the occupied territories, including Sinai and the Gaza-was never really in doubt. Sapir left before the vote, asking -in an admission of defeat-to have his recorded in the affirmative. In all, 83 members of the 161-member Secretariat were absent; some presumably felt that the result of the vote was assured, but others felt nervous about expressing their opposition...