Word: fogeyism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...approve of director Liz Friedlander's camera tricks. To make the dance moves look fancier, she'll momentarily speed them up or slow them down. But the fogey in me (who am I kidding? the fogey is me) admires the lesson Pierre teaches his students: that to take up ballroom dancing is the easiest way for them to shake off the carapaces of their street-hardened attitude and discover the social uses of discipline, civility, subtlety. And if they think of dancing as orchestrated sex, as screwing in three-quarter time, that...
That could be just a fogey's rant, mooning about the old days and ways. Viewers who resist the coming posthuman form of filmmaking may be as obsolete as the movies they loved. Get used to it, people: these new techniques will weave our deepest dreams into a cinematic coat of many colors. Thing is, it'll be worn by a cyborg...
Effects wizards of the future may concoct a seamless blend of new fakery and old, so that John Wayne can co-star in a Julia Roberts movie--technical progress that smells like life-stealing regression. Meanwhile, fogey-geniuses like Lasseter and Park will go forward to the past, creating sweet monsters and frazzled chickens, and astonishing new generations of kids in the dark...
...markedly slower place than our own. And Dickens' audience had none of the distractions that beguile Rowling's readers: no radio, films, recorded music, TV, video and computer games, the Internet. For years, literary culture has been portrayed as gasping on life support, sustained only by old-fogey teachers and hidebound school curricula. The death of the author was surely at hand. And then along came Rowling...
...Democrats wasted little time in casting Cheney as an old-fogey conservative, a "nice man," in Barbara Boxer's words, who was nevertheless out of touch with mainstream American politics. Gore surrogates called Cheney a "blast from the past" and will take aim at Cheney's right-wing ideological footprint - while the new Bush ticket will do its best to smile and ignore such talk. They're grown...