Word: candidated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward the crown among her subjects, the Queen, now 46, has tried to make herself and her family seem more accessible to her people and less remote from reality. Perhaps the Queen's most significant attempt to take the mystery out of monarchy was her sanctioning of a candid, 1¾-hour television documentary showing how she and her flock behaved in private. Although still every inch a Queen, she has projected the image of a modestly attractive matron whom anybody would be proud to have as an aunt. That is, if she were not, by dint of birth...
...thing else, before posterity had the chance to do it or not do it"), giving his mess the dignity of a historical style, like a period room at the Metropolitan. Part of his Whitney retrospective is devoted to Autophotographs-Polaroid snapshots Samaras made of his own body. Bizarre, candid and mostly unreproducible (by now, Samaras must have the most lavishly documented penis in Western art), they constitute a veritable epic of narcissism. "I could tune up or tone down emotion. I could move a little to the left or shift this and that and be my own critic...
Sally is in fact the only figure in the film with any self-consciousness, and as a result she is the only character who is emotionally vulnerable and humanly pathetic. In her absence the scenes become like Candid Camera vignettes--not just in terms of devastatingly mundane dialogue, seemingly always drowned out by roaring cars, but also in the sense of characters totally oblivious to their true, bizarre circumstances. Only under this condition could perfectly straight dialogue take place between a 17-year-old unwed mother who wants to become a lesbian and a member of a night-club...
...more importantly, this film is cruel to its own characters, making cheap fun of them in order to make an impact on us. This is especially easy for Heat because its characters, by design, tend to be so unaware and witless. (Wasn't Candid Camera itself often cruel?) Reducing Sally to emotional trauma several times as a vehicle for parody is a good example of such pitilessness. The film's last scene, in which her attempt to kill the faithless Joey evokes only audience guffaws as the gun fails to shoot, adds insult to injury; this is the major emotional...
Innuendo. It is still not clear what Segretti's specific duties were, or just how unusual his campaign against Democratic candidates was; but the words "disruption" and "harass" were used by Segretti in talking to the Justice Department. The Nixon committee responded to the disclosures with a denial that anyone "in authority" had "authorized or approved or had any prior knowledge of the break-in at the Watergate or any other illegal activities." At the White House, Speechwriter Pat Buchanan claimed that the news stories were politically motivated. "We're not gonna play that game," he said. Presidential...