Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veritable art, the correct choice of wax depends on two factors: one, the history of the snow (has it melted and refrozen?), and two, the water content of the snow...
...familiarity breeds content, A Musical Jubilee is a family album of well-loved numbers, particularly for those 50 and up. At the St. James Theater one can hear / Didn 't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, I'm in Love With Vienna, I've Told Ev'ry Little Star, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan, I Wanna Be Loved By You, and I'm Just Wild About Harry. The Fs have it, but don't forget Sophisticated Lady, Ain 't Misbehavin', and Me and My Shadow...
...fault for this lies in a script that would rather ingratiate than abrade, in direction that is content to realize, in documentary fashion, the ugly surfaces of asylum life. One Flew over the Cuckoo 's Nest is an earnest attempt to make a serious film. But in the end the movie backs away from both the human reality and the cloudy but potent symbolism that Ken Kesey found in the asylum...
...consciousness of the reader, and he has clearly put a lot of effort into writing a depressing book. The mood of the book--a pervasive feeling that Kozol is facing the apocalypse, alone, abandoned by all his liberal friends from Somerville--often seems more important to Kozol than the content. The book seems somewhat more akin to Joseph Heller's Something Happened than to works of social science or social criticism, for both rely on waves of unrelenting pessimism to make their impact. In a novel, you can accept a lack of analysis, but in the social sciences, unadorned pessimism...
...Brien fills the play's most decrepit role as Old Man Boyle, who blathers sporadically about the 20 pounds of crap in his bowels, his putrid liver, leaden legs, rotting teeth, and sparse hair. Perched in his wheelchair, between the park bench and the garbage pail, he seems content to survey the progressive dissolution of others with a complicit smile that might be meant for a slyer old man, Beckett...