Word: great
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really great idea," said one Radcliffe freshman last night. "The only trouble is that you don't know until three months into the year that you should have taken...
...fantasies, dreams and roles you can wear in everyday life. Sometimes the music gets in the way of fantasy, as in jazz, and the rock becomes reviewable, esoteric. Sometimes the fantasy becomes too formless (space music, psychedelia) or too simplistic (rock and roll revival) and the whole experience collapses. Great rock happenings are thus a dialogue between audience wishes, conceived in non-musical, irrational terms, and a group's media image. Projection is all. In fantasy, as in rock, the best group is the Rolling Stones...
...mind when he wrote: "These strange games of flying hands, like insects in the green air of evening, communicate a sort of horrible obsession, an inexhaustible mental ratiocination, like a mind ceaselessly taking its bearing in the maze of its unconscious." Of course, Jagger isn't really a great dancer; Tina Turner, who did a set right before the Stones in New York, cuts him in every way. We are told he's a great dancer, we imagine him to be one, and we respond to him as one, but that's our fantasy, our wish for a midnight rambler...
...watercolors he does, beautifully presented in the film, are reminiscent of Paul Klec. whom he admires. Anais Nin, a close friend of Miller's who came to the film's showing at Emerson, compared Miller with Fellini in their love for clowns. Both have a great passion for the circus. Fellini once said that if he hadn't become a filmmaker, he would have been a circusmaster...
Snyder said he plans to continue the Odyssey, bringing it up to the present time. Miller's life makes an exciting adventure story and a great film...