Word: banalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the Bed. Take three fixed points: Philip Roth. John Cheever, Peter De Vries. Rogin is somewhere in the triangle they describe, nearer to Cheever than the others. Rogin shares Cheever's awareness of risk, his sense that to turn a corner of the banal may be to find oneself in a howling waste of strangeness...
...remembers him from a class at Stanford. "He's very conservative, but I think the net result is that he will contribute to the deliberations of the court because of his intellect. Somehow, I have more confidence in conservatives who are men of intellect than I do in banal persons...
...Maid expresses it well when she looks at a content Mr. and Mrs. Martin--"Let's not try to know. Let's leave things as they are." The way things are, however, is vacuous and inane, shot through with hypocrisy and hatred. The movement in the play from banal dialogue interspersed only by a few absurdities, (Mrs. Smith tells the Martins that her husband wets his pants; Mr. Smith says that a good doctor always dies with his patient, as a captain always goes down with his ship) finally to the rapid-fire staccato of words...
More is expected from the man who wrote The Subject Was Roses. Peculiarly enough, when Gilroy stops writing and starts directing, he shows talent. A hospital waiting room is shown, quite accurately, to be a zone where all experience-even pain-becomes banal; a rural retreat is made a place far more sinister than an evening street in the city. Shirley MacLaine, in a couple of tasteful nude scenes, puts aside her perennial mask of lovable kook to show herself as a woman of very attractive middle age. Like a good many former celebrities these days, she remains a star...
Mechanistic Particle. Working his way through medical school, Jesse assumes his maternal grandfather's name, Vogel, and does brilliantly. He becomes an acolyte of great men and husband to the daughter of a world-famous physician. Death is no mystery to him; it is simply a cold, banal fact. Love is the great puzzle, and it keeps turning cancerous in his hands. At the height of his career, Jesse is an important Chicago neurosurgeon. Delivering a learned paper on "Retrograde Amnesia," he notes that in certain brain injuries recent memories are more easily extinguished than distant memories...