Word: deliriums
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...winner. Obviously the Pistons and Red Wings are lost causes. They are the pits. They stink. So when it appears that the Lions or Tigers are emitting a glimmer of hope of making the playoffs--playoffs that mean something--the city goes nuts. There is Motown Madness. Detroit Delirium...
Singelhandedly, they ward off missiles, but the cities they defend are only electronic blurs, and the missiles, figments of automated delirium tremens that cannot lose. Even Quix, the most artistic, to abuse an adjective, of video games conceals a destructive end. The player filling in the screen with colored boxes must ultimately succumb to the loneliness of electronic immolation. Video games create artless heroism. The heroes born with the plink of a quarter and the blink of a screen seek an inhuman, mechanical perfection that frustrates their humanity instead of fulfilling it. No enduring legend of the Round Table here...
...odds, one of its most enduring. Anyone who thinks for a moment that such show-business comparisons might be crass would do well to consider that, while Britain may not be the most flamboyant nation on earth, it is surely the most theatrical. The pageantry, and indeed the calibrated delirium, of the wedding celebration are the distillation not only of national spirit but of a shared dramatic soul...
Leave me free to rave in my delirium...
...John Ford shown in 30 minutes. They should have realized that narrative coherence is to Cimino as a snake is to an elephant: he doesn't ignore it so much as trample over it. The Deer Hunter was a botch as a story, but it had redeeming social delirium. No such luck with Heaven's Gate. An eye for portentous vistas and a yen for pretentious allegory-just those factors that won The Deer Hunter its raves and Oscars-proved Cimino's undoing when he moved from Viet Nam 1970 to Johnson County...