Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horrors of early modern decor. Lumet skillfully sustains the drama's reminiscent mood without losing his amused detachment toward the well-educated, privileged creatures who, if nothing else, will remain loyal alumnae till the day they die. Virginity, infidelity, Communism, hard times, conception, contraception, Hitler and high fashion are their concerns. Balefully sizing up the groom at the group's first wedding, a bleak ritual in Greenwich Village, one member of the sisterhood groans: "My God, Harald's wearing brown suede shoes...
Gielgud is convincing. His Ivanov is always on the verge of cruelty to himself, and to others. In the opening scene he nervously admits to his dying wife's doctor (played in an appropriately intolerable, stiffly self-righteous fashion by John Merivale) that as she approaches death from TB he loves her less, that her illness is simply getting on his nerves. He knows the doctor must think him a monster but, he says, rubbing his hands in agitation, and raising his voice in irritation, he just can't help...
...Normally the eyes are distracted by hundreds of different lights and objects, but only single out the important ones for consideration by the intellect. Pot removes this selectivity, and our eyes send indiscriminate signals to the brain. The result is that we perceive things in a completely novel fashion...
Urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon, and there is hardly a city from Vienna to Vientiane that is not hard pressed to accommodate swelling populations in orderly fashion. American cities face a special disadvantage, however, for they sprang full-blown from the wilderness; there was no planned base for rational expansion, as there was in Baron Haussmann's Paris or Peter the Great's St. Petersburg. In 1790 the nation's first census showed that 95% of Americans lived on farms or in hamlets...
When they do put up with their world, the college students do so mostly to put it down, cheering on in traditional collegiate fashion the impudent and the impertinent. Sardonic Singer Tom Lehrer remains a remarkably long-lived favorite, with five current records to skip study by. A recent Lehrer tune: "Doin' the Vatican rag/ Get in line in that processional/ Step into that small confessional/ There the guy who's got religion'll/ Tell you if your sin's original." Another favorite is urbane, eccentric Woody Allen, who is currently flipping the filmniks by writing...