Word: forcefullness
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The most original of the three albums is Loudon Wainwright's Album II. His experiments in almost shrieking emotional honesty do not always succeed completely, but the openness, eloquence, and powerful directness of his desperate loneliness make James Taylor's moanings seem sadly trivial. Several times, Wainwright's attempts to...
Wainwright is not likely to have the broader success one might expect of Peter Yarrow or Chris Smither, simply because his style is so uncompromisingly personal. People like George Gerdes, however, are already showing Wainwright's influence. Wainwright's will be an exciting, original contribution to folk and blues, which...
The impact of Resnais's films, the strength and innovation of their style, suggests the romanticized image of the forceful and eccentric creator-director, a la Godard or Bergman. In fact, Resnais unpretentiously claims a much lesser role for himself in the making of a film. During his visit to...
These are pretty forceful words and would seem to indicate a sense of moral outrage over the magnitude of Senator Muskie's alleged deceitfulness. Yet a close look at a couple of these incidents will reveal that only by twisting the facts and by giving credence to rumor can one...
But the plot, as the centaur says, is just deeds, and what gives this film its peculiar and forceful immediacy is the spirit in which these bizarre and seemingly unmotivated events are accepted. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini takes his story readymade, as he did earlier (1964) in the Gospel According...