Word: exit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exit. A competent cinemadaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's celebrated attempt to demonstrate the existentialist tenet that hell is other people...
Last Year at Marienbad. The French New Wave, which has saltily subsided, nevertheless flung up the intellectual sensation of the year, a tour de force of cubistic cinema in which Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) dismantles reality and reassembles it in a monstrous maze whose exit is its entrance...
...children into tights and sending them off, red, blue-and green-legged, into the winter days. Suburbanites took to wearing tights to the shopping center, bowling alley or even out to dinner. Manhattan secretaries, used to arriving at the office frozen from the blizzard that began at the subway exit, threw caution into the Out basket and showed up for work in tights. Grandes dames, off through the snow to the party of the year, wore tights beneath their full-length ballgowns...
...Exit. A competent cinemadaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's celebrated attempt to demonstrate the existentialist tenet that hell is other people...
...Exit. The idea of hell has gradually been going to hell. In the ancient Hebrew tradition it was a bottomless pit where "the fire is sixty times as hot as the fire of this earth." To St. Thomas it was a sort of overheated sideshow that the saints in heaven were permitted to watch in order to "enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly." To the poet Shelley it was "a city much like London." To Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, whose most celebrated theatrical tract can now be seen in a free cinemadaptation, hell is just...