Word: banalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cartoon-qua-cartoon, Fritz The Cat isn't much. The good scenes (there are plenty) come straight out of Crumb, while the Bakshi-formed transitions are usually banal. (Bakshi can't cut to save his life within scenes either.) The voices are fine, the music jaunty, and at one point--when Billie Holiday is heard singing "Yesterdays"--the soundtrack gets beautiful. The color is gloriously trashy, but Bakshi lingers on his settings at ridiculous length...
...Seven Point proposal. Bruce's successor, William J. Porter, formerly in charge of pacification for South Vietnam, was not sent to Paris to undertake serious negotiation; he was sent there to engage in reckless provocation, to treat the representatives of Hanoi and the PRG in such a gross and banal fashion that the other side--or so Washington hoped--would break off the talks. Last January 25, Nixon abruptly disclosed the existence of secret talks between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. In what was undoubtedly a highly distorted account of those negotiations, the President destroyed the only remaining channel...
...frontiers against outside invaders. Unlike any other in the world, the wall has a vitality of architectural rhythm that gives it a sense of endless movement. It seems to be a slow-moving dragon, the bricks its scales, undulating in the sunlight. Even Richard Nixon's banal description of its might fails to mute the wonder of the morning. "A people that can build a wall like this certainly have a great past to be proud of," he says, "and a people who have this kind of a past must also have a great future...
There is, of course, something grimily banal and automatic about many of the racial stereotypes that salt the language. Yet sometimes they add a bit of savor. Are "French leave" and "Indian giver" to be expurgated? And what Bowdler at a performance of Hamlet will rise in protest when Horatio says, "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice"? Should that be "Polish persons...
...achievement has been to take an extraordinary range of banal objects, invest them with consistent metaphoric power, and turn them into near-epic images of love and death. Baudelaire once remarked of talent that it "is nothing more nor less than childhood rediscovered at will - a childhood now equipped for self-expression, with man hood's capacities and a power of anal ysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated." So with Oldenburg, whose art, for all its complexity, signals a way back to the unrepressed appetites of childhood. "Everything...