Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOZART'S MAGIC FLUTE, that innocently expansive, made-up fairy tale cut with slices of Masonic mysticism, is probably the most durable of all great operas: you could mount it in a barn or a basilica with equal success. It's such a hodge-podge of childish humor, didactic verses, and obscure allegory that no director's grand interpretation is likely to encompass its entirety. In his film version, Ingmar Bergman--no shirker from directorial complexity--paid tribute to the sufficiency of Mozart's music to bear The Magic Flute's inconsistencies; he presented a filmed record of a workmanlike...
...well on his spread near New Centerville: "I don't mind the oil companies being around-so long as they leave things in pretty good order. Besides, they give me something to look at out the window." Luce's view of a gas well near his barn is a landscape that more and more Easterners can expect to see in the years ahead...
Americans are reared with a commitment to individual liberty and freedom. But the U.S. was forged in a frontier spirit of cooperation and collective enterprise that was as simple and forthright as a barn-raising. Western thinkers from John Locke to Oliver Wendell Holmes believe that individuality at some point has to give ground to group needs. It has taken a successful country on the rim of Asia to remind the U.S. that teamwork, however it is organized, is still the prerequisite for a prosperous society. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by S. Chang and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...world, a delight in vision as if it were some magic new gift, which painting had lost and would not acquire again until the triumph of impressionism. In a picture labeled simply The Hound "Balliveau," no pains have been taken with composition. The subject is tied to a barn wall. To see the picture, though, is to brood on the look of this ungainly dog as if a new species had just been invented. And in the best landscapes by Gustave Le Gray, one can almost see the air. It is as if the slow exposure required by the technology...
...obsessive to allow any alternative notion or any modification, would seem to be as limited at one extreme as Rocky was at the other. Now, it's perfectly all right to believe that we are nothing but animals; but if you really believe it, go live in a barn--don't make movies about it. The implication of Scorsese's movie is that we live like animals, he lives like a director. Taxi Driver was nihilistic, but the view was Travis's; and if we suspected all along that it was Scorsese's as well, that was incidental. Raging Bull...