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full employment and a burgeoning list 31 other advances have not been matched by an end to poverty, racism or urban decay. More and more critics argue that obsession with economic growth has tended to blind men to the dep redations that it leaves in its wake.
Through his art Boll hopes to attain, as he describes the expression of one of his characters, "something between obsession and detachment, something magical." The magic succeeds for heartening reasons. Boll puts narrative above experimentation. His "neorealism" cares more for compassion than savage attack. His moral vision deals with the...
Child's Play. "We were talking," sing the Beatles, "about the space between us all," an anthem that might stand as a succinct statement of Antonioni's major obsession. But here, that space has become a void.
Poignant Atrocity. The morbid embrace is but one flash in a carnival of images on the single Lenten theme with which lonesco and Director Karl Heinz Stroux hold the audience alternately uneasy and tittering for two unbroken hours. Death, along with madness, is the heartland of the absurd today, recalling...
Sir: It would be wise to recall that growth, self-conscious and undisciplined, is the ideology of the cancer cell. Why this masochistic obsession with bigness? It is difficult to live in a society where even the physical proportions of artificial "accomplishments," whether airplanes or buildings, dwarf man so much...