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THOSE FEW important films that are also important moneymakers usually encourage quick, cheap, and successive imitation. In the sixties, the youth film and the tepid sex/promiscuity film became the obvious examples of such industry-wide stagnation. More elusive, perhaps, was the much wider range of films which merged violence with psychodrama after the model of Hitchcock's Psycho -- formula films where violence was often the only substance, films that Hitchcock wouldn't even deign to sneeze at. Exploiters like Strait-Jacket, the 1964 axe-murder movie, led later to box-office hits like The Boston Strangler (still playing in Boston...
...Steinberg is a little bit different from any of those. His view is wider, and more self-conscious. He is the creator of landscapes and illustrated parables as well as of imaginative characters. His line has a verve and sophistication which he has been learning from the best in "conventional" art for over thirty years. (The Inspector is his sixth book since 1945.) He has clearly learned a lot from Grosz's fat generals and Berlin prostitutes, from Paul Klee's wandering tactile line, and perhaps less noticeably, from the sketches of Picasso. The Inspector includes a number of collage...
McCall said that although the defense performed well, the offense should have scored a lot more. "We're a well balanced team and deserved to win by a wider margin," he said...
Kuwait and Iraq were engaged in border skirmishes last week over a stretch of Kuwaiti oil land that Iraq claims as its own; in fact, the Iraqis claim all of Kuwait, not only for its oil but also for its wider access to the Persian Gulf. Both Jordan's King Hussein and Sudan's President Jaafar Numeiry were troubled by the Palestinian Black September terrorists in their jails: Hussein decided to commute the death sentences of 16 guerrillas but to hold them in prison, while Numeiry proceeded with plans to try eight Black Septembrists for the murder...
...vicious cyle. It plays only one concert at Harvard each year, so there's not as much talk about it as there is about other Harvard music groups. Yet, at the present level of attendance, the band could hardly afford to put on more concerts and thus gain wider publicity. The group can play well enough to effectively help promote both music for symphonic band and modern music in general. It's very sad it's not better known...