Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kovacs loved music and used it wonderfully, from his catchy ragtime theme song to such precursors of music videos as a "dance" of office furniture to Sentimental Journey or a poker game played to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Perhaps his most famous creation was the Nairobi Trio, a pantomime band of musicians in ape costumes, derbies and overcoats who mechanically plunked out a nonsensical tune like figures on a music box. The laboriously articulated joke came when one ape bopped another on the head at crucial points in the tune. The humor was too bizarre to explain...
...puts it, "one of us." After a liberal tip for their comrade in arms, their resources are a bit depleted. Brassy Theresa gets the bright idea of lifting the wallet of a wealthy Middle Eastern who asks for a slow dance at the first stop of their pub-hopping journey. Little do they suspect that lover boy is going to check his funds while the two are powdering their noses, so a quick get away in his 450 SEL, conveniently parked outside the door, is in order...
Harvard lecturer on History and Literature Paul A. Marx will take a figurative journey to New York and, according to the course catalogue, "examine the works of those artists and writers...who have used the city's physical and social environment as a major means of artistic expression...
...success you may achieve, you pave the way to disappointment if you set up your five- and ten-year goals and say to yourself, 'By then I want to be there.' We are here, I believe, to achieve wisdom and live ethically. And if we can look upon the journey of life as a learning process, we will begin to perceive a lot of the difficult and disappointing things that happen along the way in a very different light--and perhaps grow from the experience, rather than turn bitter. You really can't control very much of what happens...
...lonesome road, all of whose insights into her character or motives are banal. The director's style is as bleakly austere as her subject's life. Varda's camera is nearly always at an objectifying distance from Mona, her editing as abrupt as the small changes in the journey's rhythm (here a spot of comfort, there a moment of near unconscious cruelty). She avoids large explanations of Mona's fate, and any implication that political reform or therapeutic intervention might have saved her. And though Varda is clearly influenced by existential and modernist ideas, there is no overt reference...