Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ONLY STANLEY KUBRICK could have done it--made a film more beautiful, more boring and more expensive than The Great Gatsby. Barry Lyndon is a bad film, a disaster of epic proportions, though its stately pace and self-effacing irony gloss over the worst. There are parts of it that are so bad that an entirely ironic response takes over: "This scene, unbelievably awful though it is, was created and directed by Stanley Kubrick; it must be bad for a good reason." But there is no method to Barry Lyndon's badness, only a few misguided impulses which tear...
...point is one that photographer/editor Klosty takes seriously. Klosty is unsure if words or photographs can express much significant about Cunningham, and he says so in his introduction (which makes one wonder why he published the book in the first place). He skirts the risk of coffee-table gloss only by possessing enough sense to include Caroyn Brown's reminiscences; even so, the substance in Merce Cunningham is outweighed by its shine...
This goes part of the way to solving the Shylock problem, though nothing can gloss over the fact that Shakespeare has given Shylock the motivations, actions and retribution that properly belong the stock stage Jew, but has written speeches that (at least to the modern ear) make him something better. And the production seriously stumbles at a critical point in the interpretation of Shylock's position in the play's scheme of redemption. When Portia confounds Shylock by allowing him his pound of flesh but condemning him to death if an iota of blood be spilled in its excision...
...Unconscionable, but nevertheless inevitable. When men are men, slugging it out among themselves, conquering new land, subjugating new people, driving toward victory, unquestionably there shall be some raping." Because most historians agree with this traditional view of rape as a natural, while unfortunate side-effect of war, they continually gloss over the subject, if they mention it at all. Journalists can also be indicted for their reluctance to investigate rumors of massive rapes, or to publish reports of them even when verified. Their attitude stems not only from a callous view of rape as naturally concomitant with war, but also...
...taste, he also hoped to make it "entertaining." The result is this slick, ambiguous thriller. Hans Pikola, 50-year-old world-weary photographer turned hit man, stalks the even more world-weary war criminal, Karl Boettcher. The motive, revealed through flashbacks, provides romantic interest, undertones of incest-plus a gloss of social commentary in the form of industrial conspiracy in a Krupp-like organization. Result: a first novel that is already a bestseller in Germany...