Word: hipsterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later years exalting the spirit. More immediate was the puritanical impact of the Moslems, whose Mogul empire controlled the subcontinent from 1526 until the early 1700s. The confusion in attitudes persists; while most Indian women haughtily reject the ubiquitous miniskirt, the partygoing younger ones have adopted the "hipster sari." The bottom portion is tied low enough to expose a generous expanse of the upper derrière, while the top, or choli, has been reduced to startlingly provocative dimensions...
...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY. A routine kidnaping yarn is only the premise for this chilling seminar in the poetics of surrealistic violence conducted by Writer-Director Hubert Cornfield. Outstanding in a small but superb cast is Marlon Brando, who plays a hipster-hood and gives his best performance in a decade...
...pimps who stayed were anxious to talk, mostly about police abuse of their rights. Bill Buckley listened for a while before informing them that "there's a contradiction between the sociological and practical approach to this situation." There were other good-natured exchanges, though, as when one hipster patiently explained to Buckley that "high siding" means having...
...have been just another kidnapping movie, but Director Hubert Cornfield has a sure and shrewd eye that transforms an ordinary story into a surreal seminar in the poetics of psychological terror. The small cast is uniformly excellent, and Marlon Brando does his best work in years as a slangy hipster-criminal...
...have been just another kidnaping movie, but Director Hubert Cornfield has a sure and shrewd eye that transforms an ordinary story into a surreal seminar in the poetics of psychological terror. The small cast is uniformly excellent, and Marlon Brando does his best work in years as a slangy hipster criminal...