Word: didacticism
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Harold and Maude. A great box office success, presumably because of group of semi-zombies each saw the thing 350 times. With music by the didactic Cat Stevens.
THE SEDUCTION OF MiMi. Lina Wertmuller demonstrates that it is possible to make a movie about political ideas without being didactic. Wertmuller is fleet, funny and shrewd about the vagaries of human nature that we sometimes call politics.
But the statement, written in a didactic tone, also urged reporters to "stay inconspicuous," and to "stand back from outbreaks," so as not to participate in the events and to avoid injury. And it said, "We take notes about forecasts of violence, but print none of them."
THUS RAY does not have to introduce the caretaker of the rest home as a poor old man because, by means of the little details, we grow to know him better than we ever could from a didactic presentation. Ray shows the man from the guests' point of view. When...
PLAYWRIGHTS CAN SATIRIZE their societies in two different ways. They can look at things at their worst, at their most blatantly divergent from the professed ideals of the people around them. Or they can take the professed ideals at their noblest and best, but without blinding themselves to the realities...