Word: heavenward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake, the audience meets her mentor (Thomas A. Dorsey, a onetime blues singer and composer, now 83, who is credited with inventing gospel music), her peers and the younger singers she continues to guide. Since the music they make is among the most joyful noises ever sent heavenward, the film's jubilant mood is never less than marvelously infectious. Occasionally it is a good deal more than that...
...invocation of Mount Ararat is meant to raise the eyes heavenward, Thomas' repeated mention of Russia's greatest poets from Pushkin to Pasternak is obviously intended to heighten the moral tone of this melodrama of murderers, scoundrels and sadistic sex. As Thomas well knows, poets have historically served as a symbol of redemption in Russia. But merely dropping their names will not redeem Ararat for readers who expected more from the author of The White Hotel. -By Patricia Blake
...said he was a genius. "This boy can make a bomb out of anything," Windsor said. Billy Arthur Jr. was then asked what was the point of his bombs, and he said, "To make a big noise, of course." Anyone within earshot who possessed common sense then gazed heavenward, anticipating a collapsing Taurus...
...fictional village of Macondo, founded by the Buendia family, starts as a green Eden, then falls victim to collective amnesia, a Yanqui fruit company, catastrophic rains and inexplicable bouts of incest before being reclaimed by the jungle. When the beautiful and maddeningly virtuous Remedies Buendia is suddenly levitated heavenward while folding bedclothes, her sister-in-law merely grumbles that the sheets, which also rose, are lost forever. Central to all this is a compression of time, taut with comic invention, in which old tales and contemporary terrors are joined. The opening sentence of Solitude is typical: "Many years later...
...what do you think he saw? Yes, it was a beautiful rainbow, ribboning the night sky: a sign that the little boy had found the key to his dreams. And just before the rainbow disappeared-a rainbow no one else saw that sweet summer night-Steven aimed the camera heavenward and pressed a button. The little boy from suburbia had begun to tell his story...