Word: deliriums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's tone and style are similarly discreet. 1918 alludes rather than displays; at times it just sits there like a good deed. Occasionally, it will burst into dramatic feeling, as in Horace's bout of delirium, a wonderfully judged piece of writing and acting. But then characters will lose their edges in the diffused light that seeps through the windows like radiation and gives the picture its instant-nostalgia look. Important lines of dialogue will be muffled by heavy footsteps or a piano's plaint. The crucial event of the Robedaux family occurs offscreen, in a narrative caesura between...
...quisling. His hurtling, bullying camera captures characters in heat or dancing on the barricades taunting their Soviet godfathers. But it takes a strong subject not to be overwhelmed by Wajda's scenery-chewing style. Rolf Hochhuth's novel Eine Liebe in Deutschland offered that subject: the purging delirium of love set against the corruptive madness of Nazism...
...locked inside a squabbling relationship with an apparatchik named Luisa. In a society founded on unity, all three characters remain friendless and utterly disconnected; they see informers everywhere, and, they are sure, informers everywhere see them. All Havana, in fact, seems out of sorts and in a state of delirium tremens...
Part spiritual and part sexual, that exclamation is about as neat as the package gets: a tidy summation of the worldly power as well as the almost religious delirium of good old rock 'n' roll. The phrase was popularized by Mr. Richard Penniman of Macon, Ga., who used it both as a song title and as a kind of revival call-and-response as he rocked, in concert, with the forces of Satan. Mr. Penniman, known to a wondering world as Little Richard, let blast with rock of such demented power, performed from the 1950s through...
...Parliament in 1965. There such habits as occasionally wearing sandals to work and driving sports cars made Trudeau a darling of the media. When he called a general election, after winning his party's leadership in 1968, Trudeau was swept into office on a tide of delirium dubbed Trudeaumania...