Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great deal of flexibility, and Mickiewicz capitalized fully on the chance. His conducting was demonstrative, fluid, and expressive, moving in phrases instead of measures. His lines were lovingly shaped, sometimes elegantly, sometimes extravagantly. Mickiewicz is a master of that peculiarly Slavic kind of rubato whose sentiment hovers between joy and sorrow and has a gradual rocket accelerando that makes the Rossini crescendo dull by comparison...
...programs are chosen by word of mouth, and among those students who plow regularly through their catalogues, there is a tendency to dismiss whole areas of human endeavor, like Soil Mechanics and Urdu, which appear to the untrained eye irrelevant. Yet a careful reading of the catalogue brings scholastic joy to a small, notoriously uncommunicative group of undergraduates who have effected a virtual monopoly over the University's more exotic, which is to say more enjoyable, selections. Opposing monopoly, we bring this list forthwith to the learning public...
...Gawd," says Joy, as she walks wearily home through a London slum to her sordid flat and the petty thief she lives with. "If anyone saw me now, they'd say, 'She's had a rough night, poor cow.' " She has had more than that. But no need to worry; the important thing about this poor cow-and this film-is that the rough nights and days cannot get either of them down. Despite its scruffy scene and downhill theme, Poor Cow is not really another of England's angry proletarian tragedies. The film tells...
Documentary in style, Poor Cow opens with a closeup of Joy (Carol White) in pain. She writhes and thrashes, panting. A nurse puts an anesthetic mask over her face, and the camera moves down her body as the doctor's hands deliver the child and start it breathing. Though her husband Tom (John Bindon) is a crude, bullying, small-time criminal, Joy manages a pathetic simulation of middle-class domesticity-living in a development house, airing baby Jonny in a swanky pram, serving hostessy sandwiches to Tom's accomplices while they are plotting a caper...
When Tom is jailed, Joy takes up with one of his friends. Dave (Terence Stamp) is a burglar, but he is affectionate with Jonny and tender with Joy. Unfortunately, he is not so considerate of his victims; after attacking an old lady who happened to be around when her house was being burgled, Dave is sent up for a twelve-year stretch. Promising to wait for him, Joy starts divorce proceedings against her husband. She works as a barmaid and as a nudie model for the kind of moist-lipped amateur photographers who don't use film in their...