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...takes a lot of motivation," he admits. "I want to let people know I got imagination-- maybe--and I want to have a nice room. Of course, I'm also a hedonist!" He laughs, but then says with pride that his roommates are all getting to be "a lot more practical with their hands" because of the project...
Regrettably, the director largely abandons the altruistic thread in the narrative as he increasingly dwells on Dunn's plunge into the hedonist ethic. The repeated humiliation accorded Theresa by her handsome sexual swordsman (Richard Gere) is designed to serve as a counterpoint to the unrequited love showered on her by the enraptured James Morrissey (William Atherton), but the novelty of the contrast quickly wears off as the subjugation of Theresa becomes progressively uglier. She throws herself into cocaine-sniffing, prostituting herself for the thrill of the act, and blowing off Morrissey out of sheer spite. The schoolteacher identity is tossed...
Vacations are growing more strenuous?occasions more for doing than for sightseeing. It takes an odd mixture of the Spartan and the hedonist to "relax" by boating, hiking, backpacking, climbing, jogging, bicycling, hang-gliding or white-water canoeing. As measured by spending, leisure-time activities have grown to be the chief U.S. industry. Americans are expected to spend more than $160 billion on such leisure and recreation in 1977, and by 1985 the total will probably climb to $300 billion...
...enough of Scrooging hedonist myopia...
Take sex, for one of Farber's examples. Nobody has more effectively satirized the solemn absurdity of the Masters and Johnson laboratory ("I'm Sorry, Dear") or more wittily staged the gauche bedroom farce of the puritan turned hedonist ("My Wife, the Naked Movie Star"). But Farber is not content to do one more clever number on middleclass, middle-aged America sweating and puffing toward its Utopian orgasm. What sets him apart is an uncynical pity for the angelic apes squirming at the chain's end of lust, even as they proclaim their liberation. Patiently, with...