Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time" but makes it clear that there can be "no progress" until the U.S. sets forth a more specific plan for reversing its balance of payments deficit. Meanwhile, Giscard-and most of his fellow citizens-seems content to bask in the first rays of what he calls "the enjoyable epoch...
Beneath the Images. It must be acknowledged that even at his worst, Visconti remains a master of surfaces. The city's astonishing Adriatic streets, its gleaming planes and squares have never been so lovingly rendered. The epoch, with beautiful women haloed by immense hats and men elegantly attired merely for a saunter through the palm court, is flawlessly but tediously recreated. Still, there is no substance beneath the moving images. Adolescent Bjorn Andresen is properly androgenous but no more mysterious than a lump of sugar. Dirk Bogarde is miscast and misdirected-all hurt looks and empty cackle. The prize...
Still, in the epoch of the X-rated film, children's fare is rare indeed. The youthful viewer and his parents should overlook Phantom Tollbooth's flaws and concentrate on the film's underlying moral. Discovery and delight do not come at the end of the trail, but along the way. The going is the goal. · Stefan Kanfer
Written, produced and directed by James Clavell, The Last Valley confuses that pestilential epoch (1618-1648) with insights circa 1970. Though the war is principally religious, the soldier known only as Captain (Michael Caine) is an existential atheist. God is a legend, he announces, ergo, "I am what I am ... a killer beast...
SAMUEL BECKETT struck upon the primary purpose of art in the twentieth century when he observed that "we always find something to give us the impression we exist." Art, facing an increasingly fragmented epoch growing less certain of itself, must maintain a running struggle to illuminate "impressions" of human existence from artist to audience. Sometimes, these impressions merely state the quiet yet dramatic fact of human existence, like the paintings on the walls of Spain's Altamira caves, or else they can boldly declare individual existence with the sincerity of a Roman bust...