Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT IS CRIMINAL about this sort of self-centered expertise is that it usurps the film's only potential interest, its triangular network of human relationships. Rafelson splurges on suggestiveness and bankrupts the meaning of his suggestion. Sally's menopausal trauma is supposed to be a simmer that slowly comes...
Middle-class Muscovites have been buying the traditional paintings, both for their timeless beauty and as a practical hedge against inflation. The images have become so popular that last week Russians were buying up a first edition of a samovar-table book on the subject (with 50 color plates) at...
All this was also true of Mead's mother, but she "was filled with passionate resentment about the condition of women." Mother had other problems. The family doctor considered Emily Fogg Mead "emotionally inadequate," her sisters criticized her "austerity," and Margaret herself writes that her mother "had no gift...
So much for modernism, Bloomsbury, the avantgarde. The once experimental stream of consciousness that James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield pioneered has now been diverted. Still, Edward Albee had good reason to be afraid of Virginia Woolf. She was among the great innovative novelists; she had the enormous courage...
The Forest People was a charming, elegiac book about a "people...infinitely wise" and "without evil" who confirmed, the author said, "how the qualities of truth, goodness and beauty can be found wherever we care to look for them." Now, after living for two years in the highlands of north...