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...clothesline, and a friendly white kid named Larry comes to visit with a rope-leashed pup named Wiggles. To be tested in twelve Detroit schools that are 50% or more Negro, the books shun explicit details of the ugly world in which their readers live, try to portray an environment that their readers can reasonably imagine reaching. Hopefully, more reading is part of that environment...
...through narrative, unifying it from the opening shots of modern Milan to the closing embrace in a sand trap. At points, such as when one hears, then sees a helicopter whoosh past the hospital, it parodies La Dolce Vita, a film lacking tightness and cohesiveness, though also attempting to portray the senselessness of modern Italy. The essential difference in approach between Fellini and Antonioni is that the former stuns his audience by exploring the very human situations of three sympathetic characters...
Then she tries to portray the nymphet Juliet. Now Sarah Bernhardt, Miss Marriott, and Siobhan McKenna have all played the role of Hamlet (the last with a good deal of success, I can personally testify). But then Miss Hayes comes along trying to be Ulysses, of all things--and with Evans sitting not five feet away...
...gave the movement its rallying cry: "There is but one way for the moderns to become great, and perhaps unequaled; I mean, by imitating the ancients." In his early years, West took his themes largely from mythology and, like the Greeks, sought not only to portray beauty but also to explore the realm of the ideal. He advised his students to seek the ideal measurements of the human figure and to make their own paintings conform...
...exactly the way a boy brought up in the tanyards of Hannibal, Missouri, in the 1840's would have spoken. Yet at the very heart of his determination to be true to Huck lay an awareness that censorship was inevitable. As Twain wrote in 1880, "Fielding and Smollett could portray the beastliness of their day in the beastliest language; we have plenty of foul subjects to deal with in our day, but we are not allowed to approach them very near..." 1601 was the junk-heap into which he tossed, half-humorously, half-despairingly, the knowledge and the words which...