Word: detachedness
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But David betrays that style, adding a shallow plot, unadmirable characters and a detached atmosphere. The Strike Zone is an insult to the fans' intelligence and devotion.
Instead, in Warhol one had the detached art-supplier with mass-cultural fixations on things everyone knew: canned soup, Liz, dollar bills, death. Fame was the real qualifier. One doubts, somehow, that Warhol plowed through Faust before cranking out his flashy and unfelt variations on Tischbein's portrait of Goethe...
Is the experience authentic? Can the blues be legitimately sung for 2 1/2 hours with barely a glimmer of rage or pain? Would W.C. Handy and Fats Waller recognize anything except their own music? In truth, not much that is funky survives the onslaught of feathers and sequins. During I...
The two men reunited last April when O'Toole joined Alec Guinness to dub parts of the restored film under Lean's direction. "It could have been macabre," he acknowledges, "but it wasn't. It was fun. For one thing, David and I could see Lawrence in a different light...
The New York Times recently examined our generation's lingusitic creations and noted that the term "p.c." was foremost among them. It stands for "politically correct"; it is the detached and cynical term used to describe attitudes which are sympathetic to the demands for sensitivity. It describes those who believe...