Word: furred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...career, Eisenstein's mastery had definitely passed. In Part I, lumbering and contrived as it is, at least one can take pleasure from the intricate visual patterns that Eisenstein creates; in Part II, all that remains is a bevy of intolerably melodramatic actors wearing ludicrous hills of fur, droning like a Russian language record played at too slow a speed, and walking with all the grace of Kate Smith in a cha cha contest. In addition to this, Eisenstein switches somewhat incongruously from black-and-white to color to bronzetone, and though some might call this kaleidoscopic, I call...
...Technique," by which he meant "the theatrical technique of whipping up something in a way to provoke applause automatically." Strauss's Salome, he wrote, was "like modernistic sculpture made of cheap wood, glass, rocks, cinders, papier-mâché, sandpaper and bits of old fur. But the whole makes a composition and the composition speaks." Thomson freely acknowledges that concerts were often the merest excuses for mounting one of his numerous musical soapboxes. No critic catnapped more frequently in his seat, and the Trib's critic was famed for writing some of his most thoughtful review...
Simple Stone. That night, while Moscow slept, a motorcade of Jeeps, troop carriers and armored cars sped into floodlit Red Square and drew up before the massive red-and-black marble Mausoleum containing the mummified corpses of Lenin and Stalin.* As detachments of fur-capped policemen sealed off the approaches to the square, soldiers descended into the deep crypt, emerged bearing the rigid body of Stalin, clad in a generalissimo's uniform agleam with medals...
...while there are a few glints of true gold. ("What we do not do persists, classic and perfect, beneath what we do. The final admixture is the judgment.") But the total effect of Author Calisher's novel is like sipping gallons of weak, mandarin-style tea from a fur-lined...
...satisfied with life. Schools steer girls away from science and math because "you won't need it." Girls more than ever go to college "not to pursue learning but to learn pursuing." They slip, in the phrase of Anthropologist Margaret Mead, into "a kind of fur-lined domesticity...