These activities, they held, are expressions of visions, feelings, and emotions and, as such, are perfectly legitimate as long as they make no claims to genuine cognition or representation of reality.
But this movie is certainly his most formal expression of that vision.
Everything that Lane wrote after "Credo" — fiction or polemics — was an expression of that vision.
In particular, it points a finger at the architects who have provided the physical expression of that vision.
Still, the concert was not a strong expression of artistic vision.
But the good ones combine a description of shared reality with the expression of a vision, or with words of celebration.
And even in the hands of as good a writer as Mr. Hannah, this latest expression of that vision fails to soar.
But the movie, which the New York Film Festival is showing this afternoon and tomorrow evening at Alice Tully Hall, is certainly his most formal expression of that vision.
Without that first expression of the vision collaborators are more likely to muddle about with no firm handle on where they're headed.
