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...current mode is "neo-expressionism." It has become the designer jeans of the art industry. Thus one tends to bring mingled curiosity and skepticism to the shows by German painters that have filled half a dozen Manhattan galleries in recent weeks. The neoexpressionists are presented as missionary confreres: burning with social idealism and certified angst, robed in rough paint (crudity equals sincerity) and the turgid hyperbole of German critics. Their work is meant to evoke the fervor and spiritual elevation of German art in the '20s-Nolde, Beckmann, Kirchner, Macke. If only it could! What we get, it turns...
...After finding fault with his diet and his home, among other things, Mrs. Trilling asserts outright, "The bad aesthetics of a society matter, and so do the bad aesthetics of individuals within that society; Tarnower's house matters, the pretensions of his diet book matter--style is a moral mode, a mode in morality...
...Exchange. A trio of free spirits have wry and funny flings at love in the modern mode. A dandy playwright debut for Kevin Wade...
...status show, old style, still trudges on, to be sure, but it is most noticeable nowadays among the rich and most amusing to notice in Washington, which displays in concentration the social mode that reflects the country's ascendant mood. Says Diana McClellan, who closely monitors the status chase as the Washington Post gossip columnist: "There's more of a polarization now between the really rich and everybody else. These people are plastered with rubies and things to the point where you don't think you've got a chance. How can you hope...
...turns out, the dead bodies of General Harlan Bache (George C. Scott), the commandant, and Brian Moreland (Timothy Hutton), the ranking cadet officer, who reveres the bonkers brigadier. After Bache is invalided out of the film (much too early for fans of Scott's mad-militarist mode), the youngster turns the academy into an armed camp to protest its demise. Besieged by police, National Guardsmen and anxious parents, he vows not to surrender until the trustees negotiate with...