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...Saigon's version of Meet the Press, the My Lai incident, to cite one example, was amply reported. Still, most of the fare is heavy and hard-sell. THVN does not run commercials, but slogans such as COMMUNISTS ARE BLOODTHIRSTY PEOPLE OR TO ACCEPT PEACE UNCONDITIONALLY IS SUICIDE, flash on during station breaks. Government ministries sponsor hortatory weekly series with resistible titles like The Voice of Mobilization. Vietnamese TV has yet to produce any stars. Even a Cronkite would have a tough time coming across on THVN newscasts, which are unaccountably aired with tunes like Mrs. Robinson and Love...
...more likely that he is a technician in search of a creative imagination. His visuals in riverrun are on no higher a level of achievement than the plot-in a narrative film, how could they be? Korty's editing and camerawork go in either for slap-happy pastoral or flash-backing exposition. There are only a few instances when writer-director-photographer Korty shows any flair for metaphor. When Sarah reminisces about sitting with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile white building jutting...
...Shower. Bridget Riley's paintings are nearly always made of such a formal unit-dot or stripe or ellipse-repeated and multiplied with tiny changes of position, tone or color. Through repetition, the force builds up. Then it peaks, like a laser emitting its stored energy in one flash. The serial changes (which may be no more than the slow rotation of a geometric "blip" of paint, happening a thousand times on one canvas) subvert, and at last explode, what would otherwise be a rigid order. "Everybody lives through states of disintegration but then finds something stronger that...
...unlike Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Near the end of Superstar, the authors invite comparisons between radicals, old and new, using the voice of Judas, who appears this time as a kind of 20th century Everyman, not in a flashback, but in a 2,000-year flash-forward...
...then it happened. Bobby came to us. The door opened again and there he was, walking out to the center of the stage. Flash bulbs went crazy; it was practically daylight in there for five seconds. I had to cover my ears...