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TIME was a far better magazine before this obsession and compulsion to tout for the Israeli lobby.
It was an obsession the brothers never lost: at the slightest provocation, they are still ready to supply facts that might have come from these early lists. "Stonehenge is like the Alamo--it is not very impressive," one McWhirter may remark in passing. It is all but certain to begin...
Meanwhile, the seeds of "romanticism" were being laid within the authoritarian gloire of the Empire. Where did the impulse toward exotic subjects, far travel and weird archaeologies, which would propel Delacroix to Algiers, begin? The show's thesis is that it was fixed in the French imagination by Napoleon...
The snapshot photographer's greatest fault is that in his obsession with the ordinary and commonplace, he often forgets that he must not only portray, but also reveal. To have impact, the photographer must reveal truths about everyday life that we don't normally recognize. Without such revelation, the images...
It can easily be argued that films can be commercial and that television and books are often not, but that isn't the point. The point is that Cassavetes thinks films are not commercial, and, by extension, does not make films with commercial intent. What drives him isn't money...