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...food crisis is immense, yet a real solution can not resort to coercion and callousness. Man need not be seen as a cancerous evil. Indeed, as Blake wrote, "Where nature is and man is not, nature is barren." A true solution must affirm the worth and goodness of man, while recognizing the evil he has done. A true solution must be one that speaks for those who are voiceless...
...Notte, Antonioni's unsettled protagonist becomes increasingly the victim of a malaise that has no clear source. A television journalist named Locke (Jack Nicholson) is on assignment in a remote corner of the North African desert, trying to run to ground a story on some guerrilla fighters. The barren, blasted landscapes, the unknown language and ways of the few people Locke meets, are all transformed by Antonioni into coded messages of fate...
...coal miner literally has a jar of moonshine in one hand and a copy of Das Kapital in the other. Vecsey had to get at this somehow, because Sizemore is no quintessential miner-mountaineer. Yet he is not freak show, either. How could this socialist grow out of these barren hills? It has something to do with being suddenly laid off for nine months during the fifties, having some time to think, and making a decision. The tragedy of Appalachia--which Vecsey seems to ignore--is that Dan Sizemore made the decision alone. "Nobody brainwashed him; nobody forced him into...
This caricature of the 19th century fighters for women's rights prevails. The vast majority of American history textbooks ignore the women's rights movement altogether. The few that portray them at all present them as barren old maids, or Carrie Nations and Lizzie Bordens rolled into one. Now during this so-called "second wave of and re-evaluate the actions of those who dedicated their lives to a struggle against an oppressive system that deprived them of their personhood...
...Since most mysteries are set in a modern city like Los Angeles or in remote, isolated countryside. Graham Greene's brilliant choice of postwar Vienna is especially impressive--it manages to combine the two; the rootless, warrenlike atmosphere of a metropolls and the underlying terror of long reaches of barren scenery. The Third Man is a film in which the detective story remains entirely secondary. Holly Martins is just as much the naive American in need of protection at the end of the film as at the beginning; as Harry Lime, played by Orson Welles, is lowered into his grave...