Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comic or trumpets the dim promises of a politician. The author has previously parodied social-and sexual-intercourse in her novels (The War Between the Tates, The Nowhere City, Real People and Only Children) . In The Language of Clothes, she perceptively treats contemporary fashion as established parody. Paring the flash and roller-glitter of costume, her book becomes an intellectually provocative strip tease. Fashion, claims Lurie, is not the result of commercial brainwashing or a conspiracy of couturiers. Rather, contemporary costumes are the sartorial equivalent of free speech...
...blood in the original, but the sequel ladles on the gore like Chef Boy-ar-dee. Most of the movie takes place in a hospital where Jamie Lee's been hauled after her first bout with the Shape. The targets are mostly nurses. I've always hated nurses. They flash you a frigid smile and when you're not looking they stick a needle in your arm or a tube up your ass. And they're always balling the doctors, particularly when you're in pain and you need them. Used to lie in my hospital bed and wish...
...Negro piano player who dares to chart his own destiny as the two plutocrats did theirs, has seized the Morgan Library to avenge an outrage inflicted on his prized Model T. It is a splendid tale with sweeping images and passions, needing no dialogue-just the occasional flash of a newspaper headline and the sound of a ragtime piano, working its funereal strut...
Ultimately, Flash and a beautiful princess (Julie Christie) fall in love and are married. But Flash can't stay faithful for long, and starts playing around with the princess' promiscuous maid Ginny (Wayne Newton). Flash and the princess are divorced, Flash moves in with Ginny and nobody ever figures out why the movie is called "Shampoo...
...once men have gained control over their own lives they will not surrender it. Making the break is the key, for in the time before, surrender is a daily event, a subconscious and draining part of living. And then dignity is won in a moment, in that brief flash when you demand what is right and you are not thrown in jail, shot in the back, consigned to an asylum. For the Polish workers, their first demands were quite simple--the rehiring of one shipyard employee, and wage increases. But then solidarity--and from it Solidarity--worked its invigorating power...