Word: banalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sontag's short book is an argument that emerges from the fragmented nature of photography: "The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own." This reality, Sontag urges, is rendered surrealist by the camera. Surrealist not in the banal sense of resembling a landscape with melting watches, but in its representations- by definition disconnected, scattered and disturbing. The landscape of photographic images is to the modern eye what the flea market was to the sur realists 50 years ago - an endless, random repository, a disorderly world parallel...
Harris' intention, to debunk the old Victorian "onwards and upwards" view of cultural evolution, is admirable, though hardly rare today. But the book fizzles to a rather banal conclusion--"In life, as in any game whose outcome depends on both luck and skill, the rational response to bad odds is to try harder." For the news that our culture is by no means the first one to face a crisis threatening its whole survival may console those who are comforted in adversity by company (though the companions in this instance are all dead) but otherwise there seem...
...better forgotten--in its romanticized solo version as the "Air for the G String." The orchestra played superbly: enormous lyricism and sweetness never obscured the tightly-crafted framework, the silvery line of the upper strings poised against the muted rhythms of the bass. Far from being "mushy" or banal, Wilkins's reading was almost reverent, hushed and glowing...
Once the hallucinations disappear, Roseland glides on to the banal triangle of a wealthy woman (Joan Copeland), a narcissistic gigolo (Christopher Walken) and an awkward naif (Geraldine Chaplin). The final number features a retired cook (Lilia Skala) who dreams of winning a dance prize before she dies. The only prize the cook deserves is one for overheating her role...
Still, One on One is a fairly decent movie, even it if lacks redeeming artistic value. It succeeds mostly because it does entertain, despite the predictable romance and occasionally banal dialogue. The film is fast-paced and even funny upon occasion, as in the scene which features our hero driving a drunken, nymphomaniacal athletic department secretary home from a party. He has his eyes on the road, but her eyes are on something else, leading to a rather embarassing situation...