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...more than a snapshot of an era; it is an exposition of the state of racial relations in the South, a treatment of adolescence in a time of changing and conflicting values, and a movie about death. With this many themes, it takes on the aspect of a great forest with numerous trails that set off in different directions, occasionally cross at unexpected moments, but never all converge at a final point. While a trip through such a forest might be a diverting way to spend a few hours, it is annoying to find that none of the trails leads...
Hundreds of thousands of tiny feathers from forest birds, trapped with bird lime and nets, went into the making of a cloak, and they were painstakingly tied to a mesh base to form broad, brilliant patterns. Not until the 1950s, with Hen ri Matisse's chasubles for the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, would a ceremonial garment approach the purity and bold ness of design of the 19th century chiefs cloak named for Kekaulike-nui. Such objects would form a climax to any ethnographical show. One can only regret that in this case they...
...Forest Delano Feighner...
Oddly, the work that is relatively the most familiar, and historically the most significant, turns out to be the most disappointing. Erwartung (Expectation) is a half-hour Expressionist phantasmagoria in which a woman wanders a forest at night, yearning for a lover who has left her (or whom she may have killed), then finds his corpse (or imagines she has found it). The score, composed in 1909, broke down harmony until it had no real key, fragmented melody into an apparently unrelated succession of motifs and dissolved all structure by avoiding repetitions. It was as though Schoenberg felt a need...
...outlook particularly bleak for the one-quarter of humanity dependent primarily on wood for fuel. Already the relentless quest for firewood in places like Africa's Sahel and the foothills of the Himalaya-to say nothing of such commercial exploitation as the denuding of the Amazon rain forest -has meant the annual loss of enough trees to forest half the state of California. One side effect: as the trees are slashed away, the ground loses its ability to retain water, the land becomes increasingly arid and precious topsoil is lost. Shortages of drinking water will become chronic in many...