Word: ennui
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all the original excitement about the Pentagon papers, the trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo opened in an atmosphere of ennui. The spectators' gallery in the Los Angeles courtroom had empty seats. One after another, the prospective jurors said that they did not really remember what the Pentagon papers said and that they did not think much about Viet Nam anyway. Then no sooner had a jury been seated than the trial was brought to a total halt by the seemingly unrelated problem of Government eavesdropping. In a curious way, though, the argument over eavesdropping mirrored...
Telephone talk shows began in the early '60s, but most of them died with the decade, victims of various technical problems, high costs of production and, most important, audience ennui. Now bolder, brassier talk jockeys and new approaches have not only revived the shows but often make them the most important part of a station's programming. By switching to an all-talk format, Manhattan's WMCA has jumped from 20th to seventh among AM stations. "Just in the past few months," says Robert Henabery, director of program development for ABC-owned radio stations, "the potentialities...
...phrase, "a fruit enfolds its stone." How does old age feel? To Juvenal, it was "a perpetual train of losses." To Jonathan Swift, it meant "a state of permanent anger." Even the master exulter of all, Walt Whitman, was finally brought, in his own words, to "whimpering ennui...
...never saw the Germans," says one Frenchman. Says another: "I saw too many." Former Premier Pierre Mendès-France flashes on-screen recalling, in 1969, that during the 1939 "phony war," Paris ladies actually raised money for planting rose bushes along the Maginot Line-to reduce the ennui of the poilus stationed there. German newsreel footage switches from scenes of fresh, blond Wehrmacht soldiers swinging through France in 1940 to captured black French colonial troops, as a Nazi propaganda sound track mockingly quotes Neville Chamberlain: "We and our allies are the guardians of civilization against barbarism." What was your...
...EVEN BEYOND such ennui, the film's fraught with moral confusion. Caught between disdainful comedy and genre suspense, Dealing is schizophrenic. The audience ends up applauding the comic Mafia types as they gun down the rather thuggish cops while boogie-woogie hammers away in the background. The final, irrelevant shoot-out is reminiscent of Jacobean revenge drama--and just about as decadent...