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...large, Israelis seem to share the tolerant attitude of former Premier David Ben-Gurion: he once pointed out to a husband whose wife had run off with Dayan that Lord Nelson (who was also blind in one eye) had an affair with Lady Hamilton that did not tarnish his heroic image "even in puritanical England." When Ruth Dayan complained directly to Ben-Gurion about her husband, he replied dryly that "in the case of great men, the private and public lives will often run parallel but will never meet...
This Richard may be a monster. Yet how heroic and finally touching a monster Pacino makes him, trapped between his unappeasable self-contempt and his perverse ambition to have others honor him as supreme human being, as King - even if he has to kill half of England in order to stage what he, more than all other men, knows to be a hollow charade...
...interesting and ambitious notion, but one that does not quite fit into the structure of the film; it is almost a frill. What works better is the idea that Ivan is not only mesmerized by such mock-heroic displays, but much influenced and shaped by them. Throughout the film, he is ground down and exploited. His fantasy of breaking out of his grim world by becoming a celebrity is exploded when the music producer, who controls distribution of nearly all records on the island, offers him $20 for his song-take it or leave it. Too proud at first...
...minds young"--remains impressive. A few weeks ago, for example, a beaming little girl of about a year and a half wandered into the Crimson's newsroom and proceeded to disrupt things. She was wearing a button, nearly as big as she was, and the button said "Solidarity with Heroic Viet-namese Freedom Fighters." Gentele, a Swede, would have been proud...
ACKERMANN SHARES WALDENBURG'S fascination with plant forms in concrete, but his series of etchings is more openly ideological: his backgrounds are the ruins of bourgeois society, with greenery just creeping from under stone slabs and out of dark, heavily hatched corners. Several titles are indicative: "Late Bourgeois Heroic," "Turning Into Gardens," "The Old and New Left." Ackermann has seized on the idea of "stripping away bourgeois facades" to show buildings with their fronts removed, their walls punctured or crumbling. Compared to his co-exhibitor, however, Ackermann lacks total control over the multiple, complicated line which builds up his compositions...