Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smells nice. Soap was her step into twentieth century consumerism. It wasn't a very big step, but then nobody in Africa has taken a very big step into a consumer society. Everybody seems to assume they will, eventually, though--instead of calling them "underdeveloped countries," the current fashion has them pegged as "developing nations." I suppose that means the villages are doomed--luxury hotels will want that waterfront space--but I would rather have the villages, they're friendlier...
Synthetic Desperation. Schlesinger and Screenwriter Waldo Salt collaborated previously on Midnight Cowboy, and The Day of the Locust has much the same mood of sentimental surrealism. Both films treat rather bizarre subjects in a comfortably slick fashion, so that nothing becomes very real or threatening. All decadence is decorative, all desperation synthetic. The Day of the Locust looks puffy and overdrawn, sounds shrill because it is made with a combination of self-loathing and tenuous moral superiority. This is a movie turned out by the sort of mentality that West was mocking...
Breslin writes, "O'Neill did not know that he was using such terribly unsure methods as instinct, a little anger and a boxcar full of common sense. Soon the word was getting back to O'Neill, mirror fashion: impeachment was in the wind. Slyly, O'Neill labeled such talk "premature." He did not want a hasty vote that Nixon would probably win; once the facts were marshaled, he was sure the votes would be there...
...lavish clothes on her and teach her how to be a lady men to admire her. This topsy-turvey world works an instant transformation on Clara. The haggard lines painted on her face disappear overnight and with them the shabby working-class hausfrau; in her place stands an elegant fashion plate who abandons her peasant taciturnity for sparkling wit and high spirits, reads Anna Karenina and 1 Prontessi Spossi, swoons to romantic violin concerti and discovers that she has no desire ever to return to her coarse proletarian family...
...Ferrara was the voucher system. He proposed that, "...every parent would receive the average amount of tax dollars spent on his child, say $1000 in voucher form." He argued that this plan would, "benefit mostly the poor." This is absurd. If the money were distributed in that fashion, families with children in better than average quality schools would under no circumstances allow them to change schools. Families with children in lower quality schools would by necessity have limited mobility and choice of schools in the public system. In a private school market, those with more money would receive state subsides...