Word: fancifulism
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Cheever's great strength has always been his ability to charge both the ordinary and the fanciful with emotion. Falconer is strong on feelings, even though they often overflow the novel's loose structure. Farragut is admittedly a man keenly aware of the banal ironies of his life...
Effect substitues for reality. From the initial credits on, one is not permitted to forget that the infinite number of European courts in which the action takes place were all constructed in Cinecitta ("movie city") just outside of Rome. In one sequence, Casanova rows a boat across the Venetian lagoon...
For the honor of serving as pedestals to these creations, the modishly coiffed ladies of the Continent are willing to suffer all manner of inconveniences. Doorways, chandeliers and closed carriages pose a constant challenge. Since the more fanciful styles take as long as four hours to sculpt, women often find...
Seedy Set. In the irreverent MN2 mix, serious news is usually engulfed by the fanciful. Stripper Fanne Fox once delivered the weather report; Disc Jockey Wolfman Jack analyzed the New Hampshire primary results; Actress Terry Moore submitted to a polygraph test about shipboard sex with Howard Hughes. Porn Queen Amber...
THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN is a minor but interesting contribution to the growing number of films about upper-middle-class fears and fantasies, particularly those related to sex and marriage. This film treats some of the same discontents as Scenes from a Marriage or Sunday, Bloody Sunday, but it is closer...