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DIED. VIVECA LINDFORS, 74, actress; of complications from rheumatoid arthritis; in Uppsala, Sweden. Lindfors' neo-Garbo good looks graced a series of forgettable films before her 1954 breakthrough with a psychologically nuanced performance in the title role of Anastasia on Broadway. Lindfors' subsequent career continued to veer between high art onstage (Shakespeare, Brecht) and low on film (1973's The Way We Were and last year's Stargate...
...know what kinds of movies the Brattle shows or don't realize that you can see a double feature there almost every day of the week. On the current calendar alone, there are weekly series ranging from "Cary Grant: The King of Romantic Comedy" to "Recent Raves" and "Neo-Noir...
...will never get rid of racism in politically marginal groups, such as Neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and skinheads, or the Nation of Islam and the Black Student Association for that matter. Such groups will always see America as a mosaic in which one color matters more than all the rest, instead of a solid unified sculpture. The Civil Rights movement has achieved a lot, but groups such as these hold it back from realizing its true potential...
...subverts academic objectivity. I'll concede immediately that ethnic studies is a necessarily political project--the kind of deep resonances and solidarities that will be built up by such study, both within and between the newly "aware" minorities who learn more about their and other cultures, will be immense. Neo-conservatives argue in reply that such a connection necessarily contaminates the ethnic studies agenda. Advocacy in the class room is not only non-traditional, but unethical--and the use of the academy for political gain is viewed as nothing less than a sacrilege...
...released a wave of damaged-figure sculpture, none of it quite up to Giacometti's level. But metaphors of violence enabled certain painters of the figure to do some remarkable work, whose results would continue to be recycled by others into the '80s. There was practically nothing in '80s neo-Expressionism that approached the tumultuous energy of Karel Appel, whose two huge pictures, Man, 1953, and Portrait of Michel Tapia, 1956, all but stop this show...