Word: diversionism
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Mastroianni is one of the few actors who can play weakness and retain an audience's sympathy, mostly because of his ability to make sweet-tempered comedic comments on male vulnerability. Kinski is simply ravishing, genuinely sexy and high-spirited without being painfully aggressive about it. The result is...
A time for fun, diversion and a few tears
Escapist entertainment is what's doing the business-whatever gets your mind off the Ayatullah." In that brief capsule, Marvin Goldman, chairman of the National Association of Theater Owners, has summed up the mood of the country. During the Christmas and New Year's holidays, always the movies...
Ry Cooder, Paradise and Lunch (Reprise/Warner Bros., 1974). The guitarist-singer's loveliest diversion of various musical undercurrents (from gospel to Burt Bacharach to R. and B.) into a free-flowing mainstream.
Such scenes reinforced the U.S. concern that the Iranian government and even Khomeini himself were being swept along by events. But from the Ayatullah's point of view, there was ample reason to welcome some political diversion. He has fared poorly in bringing the Iranian economy back to prerevolutionary levels...