Word: decrepit
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...Poppa? is not exclusively about a son's death-wish for his mom. There are some engaging comments on army generals who like to kill "gooks," Central Park muggers and devious football scouts as well. There are also a few sags-notably a rather sobering voyage into a decrepit old-age home near the film's end. Still, on at least one occasion, Where's Poppa? practically made me fall out of my seat with laughter. With the possible exception of napping, this seems as good a way as any to greet the seemingly grim years ahead...
...worked entirely against the Philharmonia. BSO players have occasionally filled in for Philharmonia musicians, and the BSO's professional problems may have helped increase the Philharmonia's gate receipts. The BSO is in a rebuilding phase, bringing in new men like Harold Wright to replace aging and decrepit performers...
Similar misfortune has befallen The Angel Levine, Bernard Malamud's pithy and whimsical parable of an elderly Jewish tailor and his war with God. In the film Zero Mostel portrays Mishkin, a decrepit, latter-day Job on whom God has visited terrible plagues. His Manhattan shop has burned to the ground while insufficiently insured. His wife Fanny (Ida Kaminska) is on her death bed and driving him meshugge (crazy) with petty demands. His back is killing him and-ah, cruel Jehovah!-his only daughter has married an Italian. His faith is moribund, and to revive it an unlikely angel...
...more arbitrary and impotent than the ones they sought to replace. In his Poctics Stravinsky said, "The danger does not lie in the borrowing of cliches, but in fabricating them, and in bestowing on them the force of law, a tyranny that is merely a manifestation of romanticism grown decrepit." Are we witnessing apocalyptic musical developments, or the destructive machinations of third-rate composers? The artist who delivers us from mannerism and polemic will be an artist who has no need for them. And all the schools, foundations, cults, and mysticisms in the world cannot create, liberate, support, or influence...
...next trip was on the blue line. I chose to go all the way to Wonderland, where I could supposedly change without charge. But when I got out there, I was greeted by the condemned roller coaster of Revere Beach and some equally decrepit turnstiles, which demanded another of my precious quarters. But at least on my ride out there, I had ridden in these cars which had heat pouring up through the slats in the wooden seats-really great on this cold morning...