Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imminent revolution in the '60s, Godard is now wrestling with this decade's disillusionment. Ten years ago, with films like Weekend and Pierrot Le Fou. Godard became renowned and revered as the most blatantly political, and radical, of the French "new wave directors." His movies shocked and stirred with bitter anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeois visual polemics. But just as Godard was then trying to translate radical ideology onto the screen, with Numero Deux he seems to have set out to create a visual reflection of his recent frustration. The result thus deliberately lack focus. Yet in its confusion this...
...equally bitter ballad, "Bring Back the Chair," Paxton evinces his skill with irony. He mockingly suggests that America should revive executions to escape from complete boredom, chanting, "Bring back the chair, strap someone there, strap down a pair." Swept away by the morbid message, Paxton lapses into moments of poor enunciation and phrasing, but the song is funny enough to short out delivery problems. Again, the music provides a steady circuit for the electricity of Paxton's work...
...ever knew." Paxton runs the risk of using enough saccharine to kill a tubful of Canadian rats, but this sentimental ode at least provides a suitable contrast to Paxton's political commentary. "There Goes the Mountain," Paxton's plea for preservation of nature, also combines sweet and bitter in just the right proportions. Steve Goodman harmonizes as Paxton personifies the mountain, the "avalanche-maker, heaven's caretaker." Paxton stimulates nostalgia for Earth Day with his revival of concern for the environment...
Indeed, Rudd's band, known as the Weather Underground Organization,* has not claimed responsibility for any revolutionary activity since the bombing of a New York bank in 1975. The group, moreover, has been racked by bitter quarrels over whether the fugitives should try to change U.S. society from above ground. The dispute came sharply to a head last year, after five of the radicals-Kathy Boudin, Bernardine Dohrn, Cathy Wilkerson, Bill Ayers and Jeff Jones-outraged their colleagues by willingly appearing in Director Emile de Antonio's film Underground. Dohrn later had second thoughts. Said...
...bitter pill to swallow when he realizes that the team goes on business as usual, without him. He sits in the training room while everyone else heads out to practice. He no longer has to attend meals or meetings. Robbed of the security of the routine, he struggles to feel part of the team...