Word: apocalypticism
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Stunningly introduced, running breathlessly toward the camera in a frame worthy of romantically-inclined Hitchcock, Daria (Daria Halprin) represents for Antonioni semi-dormant awareness of the imperfect world she inhabits. A hippie girl who condescends to establishment employment when she "needs bread," this Antonioni heroine is a creature of fashion...
In 1952 Chambers published Witness. It was one of the most wide-ranging American autobiographies ever written. But the enduring revulsion against Chambers all but buried it critically. Now, nine years after his death, readers have a new occasion to study the lineaments of Whittaker Chambers' character and thought...
JIMMY BRESLIN has already said that this is the best movie to date about Vietnam and-while others have said the same thing about such pictures as Alice's Restaurant. The Wild Bunch, and Tell Them Willie. Boy Is Here -I think Breslin may be right. The marathon-with its...
The setting is a Catholic boys' school. The boys are seemingly possessed by a plague of violence, savaging each other brutally and without ostensible cause. They stalk along the stairway and confront their teachers, lay and clerical, with an oppressively arrogant silence that makes the generation gap look more...
... And what of the Beatles then? Now that they no longer exist, for the moment at least, as a Group? It's funny. We always used to speculate about how the Beatles would break up and we imagined it would be some kind of a definite, apocalyptic event. But things...