Word: canting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exception to the general air of unctuous duplicity is an outsider, a Hollywood choreographer brought in to stage the song-and-dance numbers. Appealingly played by real-life Choreographer Michael Kidd, he treats his charges roughly, without cant, but with genuine, humorously phrased care for their welfare. He almost cons the viewer into believing that the film actually has a heart ticking away fitfully some where near its sneer-meter...
...Victorians, as Chesterton observed, were "lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg a little shorter than the other." It was an epoch of elegance and kitsch, dignity and pornography, liberal cant and imperial overreach. It is this instability that enlivens-and afflicts-Brian Moore's novel, The Great Victorian Collection...
...projected titles, and other devices, Brecht's content is often so potent that we are sucked up willy-nilly--as in Mother Courage and Galileo. Similarly, Our Town, despite its lack of verisimilitude, rarely falls to sweep us up into the lives of its simple characters; and anyone who cant sit through its (somewhat too short) final act with dry eyes is nobody I should care to know...
...proclaiming the supremacy of the nation-state. Her real visions, then, are of the dawn of the age of democracy, and her real voice is the vox populi. She is, to Shaw, a saint of the downtrodden masses. And in the course of the play, she spouts enough demagogic cant about the rights of the individual to run for office herself...
...wears out every broadcast hour, she inspires more -and infinitely richer-fantasies than all the plastics of Disneyland. Indeed, it is barely possible that Cher in Cher may -with a little help from the many shrewd friends who so elaborately package her each week-redefine that grand old American cant phrase, "family entertainment." For if her style is at odds with that of the competition, the fact remains that like everyone who aspires to success when all of America is still awake, she must offer a little something for every member of the family. What is different about Cher...