Word: echoeing
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Footfalls echo in the memory...
...mirrors, and are met by bourgeois gentlemen in dark suits and bowlers. Sometimes, as in The Encounter, the businessman has Delvaux's own face. Though Delvaux has turned out countless variations of somnambulists in empty piazzas, only a few of his works -like the enormous Spitzner Museum, 1943-echo in the mind for long...
...symbol of misogyny, not revolution. Heavily involved in the Theater of Cruelty, one of the Jacobs says, "People believe themselves immortal. We must give them a sense of death." Bertolucci's own beliefs may be showing through in lines like these, as they never do when he echoes Moravia's political sentiments in The Conformist. Last Tango in Paris is pure Bertolucci, written without a source, and it too gives us a sense of death. But in that film there was a fervent impression of life set apart from a dying culture outside. Partner gives no importance to life...
DISCUSSING the period of the thirties in American writing, Murray Kempton once remarked that no other age produced so many counterfeit Walt Whitmans. He meant that everyone who wanted his thoughts about society to be believed felt compelled to echo the great grey bard: "I am the man, I suffered, I was there...
...with vague understatement--something like a mob leader warning that "Mistakes can be made." The miracles that hold objects together, keep people from falling, and generally organize the world, turn inside out. Mistakes: a maid plunges into the hotel room while John is naked--one laughs, but with an echo. Coincidences: as John and Laura pass through an archway a shutter slams shut in the house above. Incidentals: in the wash room where Laura meets the two women sits a silent, Goyaesque attendant dressed in black, with an air of inexplicable mockery like the warning figures early in Death...