Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Damien survives, for no good reason except the producers' hopes to squeeze one more sequel out of him. It is, of course, possible that they are Beelzebub's agents in a new strategy of boring us so profoundly that we will turn to evil to cheer ourselves...
Whenever Robert Klane gets a good musical number going, he cuts to one of these primitive, predictably developed stories. Whenever one of them threatens to become mildly interesting, he zooms back to the music. The result is a movie that, with much false cheer, provides nothing for everybody, though several performers do manage to make an impression despite the clutter. Outstanding among them are Donna Summer, who is effective when, as the aspiring singer, she seizes her musical moment; Chick Vennera as a character who lives only to dance and who, if someone had actually bothered to choreograph...
...unfortunate attitude about us that is manifest in the frequent condescending treatment we receive from many, though certainly not all, able-bodied people. The latter are usually well-meaning and good hearted, but are all too often unwittingly insulting. People invade our privacy, address us with patronizingly false cheer and blithely disregard our expressed wishes. This behavior seems to be derived from the assumption that we are not fully functioning adults and therefore must be treated like patients or children, doing what others think best...
...plots of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, which has wreaked havoc in West Germany for a decade. As Groenewold nervously shuffles papers, his own lawyer politely debates procedural points with the prosecutors. No one shouts obscenities; the tone is orderly and low-key, punctuated only by an occasional muffled cheer from a handful of law students sitting in the audience on the other side of a bulletproof screen...
Apricot blossoms vie with each other to cheer your feats...