Word: escapist
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...display of style by Lynn Redgrave and Jeremy Brett as the urbanely warring couple, George Rose and Brenda Forbes as a tippling reverend and his priggish wife and, above all, Colbert, with her breezy manner and chorus-girl legs, and Harrison, with his merry twinkle and courtly roguery. Escapist the experience undeniably is, but Aren't We All? could not bear the weight of added incident, let alone redeeming social importance. Either would amount to gilding gossamer...
Though most of the films were designed as escapist fare, they still carry moral and intellectual values that may trouble blacks today when they are exposed to films made for earlier generations. Like their Hollywood counterparts, these movies often traffic heavily in racial stereotypes-Big Mommas ruling their matriarchies with flying skillets, lazy males shuffling off to drink and gamble away the rent money, tight-skirted temptresses with whiplash hips luring the pious into evil ways...
...escapist extravaganza outdazzling Mardi Gras...
...before the scares of chocolate-covered razor blades. Long, long before that, it was a religious occasion for their pagan elders, and now it has been taken back by the grownups-masks, costumes, witches, jack-o'-lanterns and all. Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear. This year's celebration will be the most raucous ever, lasting four or five days in some places, a virtual Halloweek...
...camera crew of course record the happy fantasy realization, "it's a miracle," the tree recipient said) suggest their unhappy financial situations and consequent inability to continue hobbies. perhaps it stretches arm-chair psychology too far, but it does seem interesting that these two fantasies involved the escapist worlds of nature and music...