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...Horsey says that. "The real issue had never been approached in the midst of honest to God' battle it was forgotten, while viva is Revolucion" et al. was the day's chant." Although the factional squabbles Mr. Horsey describes are regrettable, the real issue of the march--racism--has more to do with revolution than with busing or schoolchildren. --Jon Jacobs
...this was only a play of light and shadow. For the real issue had never been approached. In the midst of 'honest-to-God' battle it was forgotten, while 'Viva la Revolucion' et al was the day's chant. Though the revolution might be coming, the march was supposed to have been for the children. And not much was heard of them. They floated around somewhere in the background, but only as an abstract concept, lingering in the shadow of the ultimate truth the revolution. Perhaps children are too small an issue. Certainly they pale in comparison with revolution...
...Manhattan galleries at midwinter, the overall impression is of a series of dead ends being earnestly explored by many artists. They are producing hundreds of square yards of post-abstract expressionism, after Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell et al., and seeming acres of color field after Morris Louis and Jules Olitski. There are innumerable variations on hard-edged abstraction, after Stella, and scintillating but ultimately repetitious structures of glass, light and Lucite in the dimming name...
...bungled by being to flatly spelled-out; the flashbacks are too insistent, show too much. Everything is reduced to a simple formula; each murderer gets his motive neatly assigned to him. The energy is lost that should be generated in any room containing John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Ingrid Bergman et al. Lumet doesn't seem to realize that such energy won't generate itself, that he has to do something to make it happen. The pace of his film is slow, so slow at the beginning that you can enjoy it purely as an atmosphere picture, as the camera takes...
...Russian words. Boris' realistic-in a sense unoperatic-style of recitative is perhaps Mussorgsky's greatest innovation and contribution to future operatic composers. Says Conductor Schippers: "Boris influenced so many composers-Puccini, Stravinsky, Janacek, even Gian Carlo Menotti. Without it we might not have had a Pelleas et Melisande. That's how important I think Boris is." -William Bender