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black people--screaming that women have a "constitutional right" to have babies without latching on to a husband, and that teenage girls have a "constitutional right" to get pregnant any time...
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"Why Were We In Vietnam?" Nicola Chiaromonte, the Italian essayist, in a recent issue of Dissent. Attacking what he called "the widespread habit among our contemporaries of judging every problem concerning social reality in...
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they come in the guise of antitheses. There is good reason to question a genre--if we can call it that--which, like sociology, is often weak as history, and, like the daily editorial, is often...
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by Robert Asahina There has been a lot of movie madness lately. By that I mean movies about madness, rather than madness about movies —although there has been more than enough of the latter,...
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by Robert Asahina Seven Beauties, the latest film of Italian director/ writer Lina Wertmliller, is now showing in Manhattan along with four of her previous movies (Swept Away..., All Screwed Up,...
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The Talkies byRobertAsahina / Reverence and solemnity are usually regarded as characteristic of religion and not of cinema, the "liveliest art" : Gravity is thought to be inimical to the high...
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by Robert Asabina Certain "cult" novels and films have had the power to embody as well as define the political and cultural essence of recent decades. One need scarcely be reminded of Catcher in...
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nority preferences; he is not bound to us by the nexus of profit and loss; if he pleases ten, he can afford to ignore nine with impunity. But so far we deal only with existing wants and known...
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by Robert Asahina Although the lonesome cowboy has been for some time an object of derision or nostalgia or parody (or even self-parody, as with John Wayne), the hardboiled detective has...
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by Robert Asahina j One interesting cultural phenomenon of the last eight years or so has been the rapidly growing interest in country music; and it is no accident (to use the old Marxist...
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candidates than it is to raise money for public policy issues, and it is still more difficult to raise money for fundamental research and writing of the kind engaged in by the Webbs—the kind that...
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Apel, Jonah
I.F. Stone, Self-Crafted Icon
(July 1984)
