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In The Arts, The Critic Is The Only Independent Source Of Information. The Rest Is Advertising.

In The Sixties, The Recycling Of Pop Culture Turning It Into Pop Art And Camp Had Its Own Satirical Zest. Now We're Into A Different Kind Of Recycling. Moviemakers Give Movies Of The Past An Authority That Those Movies Didn't Have; They Inflate Images That May Never Have Compelled Belief, Images That Were No More Than Shorthand Gestures And They Use Them Not As Larger-than-life Jokes But As Altars.

Citizen Kane Is Perhaps The One American Talking Picture That Seems As Fresh Now As The Day It Opened. It May Seem Even Fresher.

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