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...sequence edited according to the dictates of formal montage: establishing full shots followed by closer angles, each shot conencted by continuity of movement. The style differed from ordinary live-action narrative only in its being a drawn image and in its evocatve distortions of color. Disney's realism remains a basic standard for the representational cartoon. Without detracting from the simplified stylization of UPA (Mr. Magoo), the Hubleys (Moonbirds), or Derek Lamb (whose unforgettable Great Toy Robbery is a classic of the genre), Disney's merging of animation and classical photographic montage is still, by default, the most completely satisfying...
...habitual gallerygoer opts for the caricatures, one explanation is that serious artists in this century have ever more moved toward abstraction and developed an audience that now finds realism intrinsically banal. But, as Levine knows, there is another, even larger audience consisting of "people who don't live solely in the art world, people who are related to the kind of people I paint." He is delighted when one of those exclaims, "That picture of a presser looks exactly like my uncle," or "That woman on the beach reminds me of my aunt...
...Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History and one of the seven on the Committee, suggested at the meeting Tuesday that the Faculty is no longer able to make abstract decisions on academic policy (how to run tutorials, for instance) without tallying up the costs. This kind of economic realism runs all through the report and the Committee finally challenges the very informal structure by which growth is directed here...
...Light Brigade -- A movie which argues that mid-Victorian England was a pretty inhuman place, revealing that quality most clearly in its incredibly stupid wars. Not as exciting as the book (Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why), but for those who like their wars with lots of gory realism and facile satire, may make enjoyable viewing. At the CHERI 3, Dalton St. in Prudential Center...
...Light Brigade--A movie which argues that mid-Victorian England was a pretty inhuman place, revealing that quality most clearly in its incredibly stupid wars. Not as exciting as the book (Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why), but for those who like their wars with lots of gory realism and facile satire, may make enjoyable viewing. At the CHERI 3, Dalton St. in Prudential Center...