Word: backward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were at a cathedral organ with all the stops out. Each scene, whether it means to elegize or horrify, is unrelenting, unmodulated, rabid with its own righteousness. And yet, frequently, the crazy machine works because of its voluptuous imagery. When Ron is wounded in Viet Nam, he collapses backward, and from his mouth a stream of blood spurts like the fountain of lost youth. The hospital sequence is an insider's tour of hell, and the Mexican brothel is an endless emotional purgatory...
...Nathanael West. As the tycoon (Rene Auberjonois) lays down the law (no social criticism, no politics, no hint of kinky sex), the moneystruck young writer (Gregg Edelman) peevishly retypes his scenes -- and, in an inspired bit of playfulness, that action causes his characters to move and speak jerkily backward, as if a film were being rewound, until they are back in position to perform the new bowdlerized version...
...Binyan to castigate its errors. They are both right, and they are both wrong. No one could possibly fault Wuer Kaixi for waiting never to forget those who died, but he was wrong in thinking that the gathering Sunday was "lighthearted." It was forward-looking as well as backward-looking; imaginative as well as reminiscent. I have wept in memorial of Wuer Kaixi's friends, but for the remembrance to have meaning, I and others must...
...other, liberal. It is only the very cynical, the unassailably religious, or the consistently nostalgic who have remained unaffected." A lot fewer of us think of ourselves as liberal since Minogue wrote those words. But the different impulses that pushed us right -- the hard head, the stern faith, the backward glance -- remain in play and remain different. Each must find its own way through the sieve of events -- a conservative sentiment, come to think...
...Harvard student body is poised to take a giant step backward. The emergence this fall of new social clubs and fraternities will lead toward a more exclusionary, more factional social life...