Word: breathlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ravaging the Retinas. Perhaps the frugging, neon-lit, chromium-plated, plastic, pastel peregrinations of the times demanded a breathless roller-coaster rush of words to re-create the "shockkkkkk" of the real-life experience. But too often, Wolfe, dressed for the role in orange or off-white suits, merely seemed like an action-painter-writer recklessly ravaging the retinas with pastel word-blobs. Was he freaking out at the reader's expense? Was he in fact a social critic using a comic-strip writer's approach or a flack for pop cultists? A high priest of the gadgetry...
...national cathedral, Paul's first stop after the airport. Some of the faithful had waited all night in the Plaza de Bolivar fronting on the cathedral. When Paul arrived, the surge of the mob was so forceful that women lost their shoes, 300 persons fainted or were pressed breathless, and even the Pope himself was jostled. Escorted into the cathedral by a phalanx of police, Paul was greeted by 5,000 priests, nuns, novices and seminary students who jammed every niche of the basilica, elbowing and shoving for a better look...
...CARABINIERS. When he is not behaving like a brat, Director Jean-Luc Godard can be quite grown up, as he once demonstrated with Breathless and now shows again with this dry, abrasive antiwar film that is at once a satire of post-war Europe and a subtle dissection of aggression...
...CARABINIERS. When he is not behaving like a brat, Director Jean-Luc Godard can be quite grown up, as he once demonstrated with Breathless and now shows again with this dry, abrasive antiwar film that is at once a satire of postwar Europe and a subtle dissection of aggression...
...CARABINIERS. Blending some documentary footage with his own, not altogether somber view of war, Director Jean-Luc Godard comes up with an artful portrait of man in combat that may be his best film since Breathless...