Criticism

For those too young to remember the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the name tends to evoke an awkward admixture of myth and reality. With the November publication of Seymour Hersh's exhaustively researched and brilliantly executed 450-page revisionist analysis "The Dark Side of Camelot" you can loose the rose colored glasses.

The history of this century has been "written" with images. In the "The Tin Drum" Schlöndorff deliberately recreates visually similar images to those in "The Triumph of the Will" to make the formerly spectacular seem everyday, namely in a political demonstration that is thrown off by a drumbeat and dispersed by a downpour. Did someone in Oklahoma miss the point?