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...nickname is used more often. He's never described physically--Yossarian--other than being suntanned, and kind of large in build. I don't know why it's that way. I think that in the books I write I tend to lean away from action-packed kind of literal realism...
Never Real. Fellini long ago left realism behind him to strike a tone of controlled fancy. Much of Amarcord is altered reality-memory heightened and changed by distance and by imagination. Everything is recognizable but never quite real. Of the large cast, only the actress Magali Noel, who appeared in La Dolce Vita and 8½ is familiar. The other performers were recruited according to the recent Fellini tradition: because the director liked their faces. He worries about performance later, frequently even giving them other voices, dubbed in once he has finished shooting. Whoever his actors are, and whatever tricks...
Stoppard seems chiefly concerned, in Travesties, to explore the relationship between art and social class. The aesthetic theories associated with Tzara and Lenin-dadaism and socialist realism--are both attacks on the conventional bourgeois notion of art, though from different directions. Yet just as Tzara becomes as conventionally middle-class as a character in The Importance of Being Earnest, Lenin himself is only moved by the decadent art of Chekhov and Beethoven. Joyce, perhaps, offers another angle on the problem, but one not explored much by Stoppard, who leaves Joyce as a tweedy, limerick-spouting stage-Irishman and stock anti...
...THIS disregard for "what the world looks like" that many visitors to "Photography Unlimited" will no doubt find disturbing and even offensive. Those who admire the documentary realism of Edward Weston, Eugene Smith and Paul Strand--artists who sought the "perfect negative"--may find Karen Truax's handcolored photographs of surrealistic landscapes or James Friedman's mixed media collage made of multiple images of a woman's face, a hammer and a broken window, irritatingly enigmatic and uncommunicative...
...mini-Czechoslovakia," said one disconsolate painter as he walked away with a ripped canvas. "Now you know what they mean by socialist realism in art," said another. Five painters were arrested and charged with "petty hooliganism" for trying to resist the bulldozers. By week's end all had been released...