Word: delusionally
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Abortive Attempt. The film is a blend of animation and live action. Like Director Bakshi's previous inexplicable successes, Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic, the movie labors under the delusion that outrageousness is a synonym for wit, ugliness of line and color a form of style, crudeness a...
The Soviet Union is an earnest, intensely conservative society, convinced of the virtues of industrial growth. There are so many shortages, so much catching up to be done, that advocacy of zero growth would be heresy. Freedom is daily defined as freedom from want, and democracy is seen in terms...
In the amorphous atmosphere of Night Moves, Moseby's inability to finish anything off makes sense. It's night that's moving--an inexplicable rumbling in the distance, and Moseby's delusion is that he's moving a knight in a chess game, check, check, check. But in fact the...
Overly optimistic, some U.S. immigration officials had predicted that all the Vietnamese refugees would be settled in their new American homes within three months. Now that seems to have been just one more delusion. Red tape, a shortage of sponsors and sorely understaffed volunteer organizations have combined to keep more...
A Reformed Modernist. Part of his persona was his view of modern art. He regarded it with the contempt that an old blues pianist, after 30 years' rattling the ivories in a Kansas whorehouse, might reserve for ten minutes of John Cage silence. No guts, no drawing, no life...