Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE IS THE danger in experimental rock music of going too far; of trying to fuse too many different sounds or trying to incorporate too many independent effects. The inevitable result of over-stepping this peculiarly defined boundary is an abundance of noise, and a paucity of music. The many accomplishments of Traffic, for instance, were greatly obscured by the group's stubborn determination to embody special effects in its music...
...their own lives for some of the dialogue, as Antonioni apparently encouraged them to do, then they are in part responsible for character inconsistencies that cloud the basic narrative thrust of the film. A twenty-one-year-old carpenter from Mel Lyman's Fort Hill commune, allowed to fuse his beliefs with his part, is not going to esndorse a set of volatile character traits compatible with buying guns and menacing policemen ( Avatar, remember, endorsed Robert Kennedy's candidacy as the hope of the Nation). Less important but equally troubling, it is to be hoped that a San Francisco dancer...
...self-gratifying illusion when faced with actual degeneration, thereby failing to deal with society on its own terms, as a revolutionary. Like Blow-Up, there is some doubt whether Zabriskie Point projects hope or total pessimism. Given the frequent shifts in point-of-view and Antonioni's tendency to fuse himself with his characters to carry them to new experience, the ending operates better as a fantasy specifically given to Daria. As a vision implanted in the girl by the director-God, its constructive nature remains unqualified. Daria is wiser for it-not further detached from external action...
Fonda rides above them like a man on a gelding. Without missing a hoofbeat or a paycheck, he appears in westerns (Jesse James), biographies (The Story of Alexander Graham Bell), even comedies (The Mad Miss Manton). But it is not until 1940 that the man and his role fuse into the permanence of art. More than 20 years later, John Steinbeck unreels a print of The Grapes of Wrath...