Word: criticals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of that thesis is sensible enough. The critic George Steiner has argued that "the world of Auschwitz lies outside speech as it lies outside reason." But that elegant despair, which would not desecrate the victims by recording their tales, contradicts the imperative to repeat the facts frequently, from one generation to the next, precisely to keep the victims from the oblivion that the Nazis desired for the entire Jewish race. It pays to be impatient with anyone who says a story is too terrible to be told...
...fake primitive rite designed to put them in touch with the departed spirit. A dog's howl seems to him a sign that he has been heard, though a more objective observer might imagine the hound to be the world's first furry movie critic. A little later there is a candlelit attempt to summon Dean via ouija board, which spills over into a raid on a lover's lane to frighten non believing neckers into joining the mourning. The girl who most deeply shares Jimmy J.'s excessive regard for Dean is horribly burned when...
...their family. There is a terrible human need when the body conks out, but no one in my generation gives over his life. I began by wondering what would happen." After the book was turned down by a couple of publishers, Gordon took it around to her Barnard teacher, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick. Her advice was to switch the narrative from the third to the first person. It took three months and transformed the book...
There are fleeting flaws, inevitably, but it'd be grouchy to make much of them; when a director is so clearly a perfectionist, a critic can afford, for a little while anyway, to relax. Nabatoff and Bushman could sing "You're The Top" to each other instead of the audience; a few funny lines were buried in the laughter on opening night and some of the supporting players might raise their volume a little; during the second act, someone says Moon is locked in the brig, after he has clearly participated in the previous production number--oh hell, enough...
...shifts became a major artist ... It is very hard to truthfully understand what happened to him on the way, not only in terms of self-transformation but in terms of how the audience saw that transformation ? so that he could keep working as a literary and social critic through drawing, and still be a unique American painter. He is the only one that I know who has been able to achieve both at once...