Word: glopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around on the roof of a shed when they suddenly fall into a handy pigsty, landing in 18 in. of gunge. All join in for a high-spirited fray-for-all. But the pictures are not as dirty as they might seem. Cheryl rises muddy but unbowed because the glop-chacun à son goo -was specially sanitized for the event. "I had a ball," says Charlie's fourth Angel. "But I took five showers and still couldn't get the stuff completely out of my ears...
...culture, or any of the other reasons the parts of you from the ankles up may have used to justify play-going in the past. The relevant fact this week is feet. Anything that's going to require a journey on the T. or extra slogging through the Cambridge glop had better be footworthy...
...take movies seriously? You go on the set with the script in your back pocket. You take it out and read: 'Let's see ... in this one Brando plays an Indian who attacks the stagecoach.' O.K., let's roll 'em. Commercialized glop, not worth thinking about...
...never really appreciate the luxury of accessible, stimulating surroundings until they're gone. Four years of Cambridge makes you fat and complacent--stimulus is routine there, served up like glop on the cafeteria line. It's departure is tangible...
...several days' duration to dispose of the corpses. A few critics have suggested that Le Trio Infernal is supposed to be a black comedy, but the length and the detailing that Girod lavishes on this sequence dissolve that conceit more quickly than the acid turns the victims into glop. Since Girod's view of the proceedings is both slavishly realistic and entirely amoral, irony, satire and rage - the comic artist's basic tools - are not at his disposal. But the film is actually unworthy of even that much critical comment. It should not be reviewed but posted...