Word: decay
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...once again risen from its grave; but even the Christians knew better than to resurrect the dead more than once. Still not content, Gardner spices his novel with allusions to Arthurian legend. And to all this he adds his own version of that classic Faulknerian tale of the decay of the proud and respected Compson family. It is all done in the same battered, albeit rigid, multi-consciousness point of view...
They have wilted into a stinking pile of compost nurtured by irresponsibility, disrespect, laziness, greed and moral decay, exemplified by TIME's feature story on Last Tango...
...tremendous enthusiasm that Kahn's teaching-no less than his buildings-evokes in other architects is partly explained by the decay of the socalled International Style. That system of curtain-wall, frame-and-fill architecture came to America from the Bauhaus, and has dominated the nation's cityscapes ever since. But the past decade has not been kind to the International Style. As the last "rational" abstract mode of building, it has been much attacked as unresponsive to human needs. The architect as master planner, exerting in his structures a pressure, both functional and ethical, on the messy...
...woogie on an ancient organ; and dutifully announced in the best fashion-show style roller-skating, bicycle riding nuns and priests parade by in the most outlandish of costumes: black satin for novices, immaculate turtle dove, neondecorated vestments and portable stained-glass windows. It is an orgy of Vatican decay, crowned finally by the entrance of the Pope himself, ossified and immobile, wheeled in on a huge golden throne, as the audience erupts in hair-pulling paroxysms of faith. But more is involved here than the obvious satiric bite. On the far side of sacrilege. Fellini has made an uneasy...
...Fellini finds the decay exhilarating and embraces impending doom beneath the surface. In the final sequence a troop of goggled motorcyclists roar through the rubbish of Rome on a joyride, anonymous heralds of catastrophe. Fellini whirls his camera through the city on one last dazzling tour before speeding off, after the cyclists, out of the cuts into the darkness, greeting the apocalypse with an empty grin...