Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt to brag about your "special gift to homogenize a diverse society" in your "American Notes" [Oct. 26] at the moment when your neighbor is burying a murdered leader is the height of cruelty and conceit. Undoubtedly there were Canadians who expressed feelings other than anguish when American leaders were murdered-but for those of us who consider you a friend, your words are senseless. You owe us a retraction...
...QUIET PLACE in the Country opens in promisingly non-narrative fashion, throwing movie credits and Baroque paintings and Francis Bacon's meaty compositions together in a confusion of people, images, anguish, sex, written words, emotions-in a word, modern western culture. In part this opening credits sequence challenges (in a laughable sort of way) the truth of a film's assertions: "color by Technicolor" is followed by a picture certainly painted in FrancisBaconColor (here, of course, it is in Technicolor); "paintings by Jim Dine" precedes the work of an Italian several centuries dead. More importantly, the sequence creates a continuum...
...objects in Blow-Up, enters this perfectly bourgeois room and crosses to her trussed-up lover, Franco Nero, here a non-figurative painter. She turns on a burnishing wheel that begins to polish Nero's foot and Petri cuts to another action expressing a corollary anguish, a shot of her pulling his hair. It's only Nero's dream, though...
...husband surreptitiously gulps a fizzy glassful ("Is it beginning to rain, dear?" she asks). The playlet's success depends upon the interaction of the bride's naivete with the sudden, stunned realization of the groom (Terry Kiser) that the price of love may be endless indigestion. His anguish as she innocently plans her next menus (marshmallowed meatballs and poached oysters) is a masterly mixture of suffering and tact. Indeed, Alka-Seltzer commercials have become the standard by which the entire genre is judged...
Many will fight for the security of the corporate state, even if that security is a deception and an instrument of anguish. Nor are such people likely to vanish through the cycle of generations. Parents raise children in their own image, and most children comply. The apparent radicalism of many high school and junior high students may be no more than the unenlightened protection of group self-interests such as the New Deal...