Word: joylessness
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...Night (Lopert) begins at noon. In brilliant sunshine, silently, from the summit of a glittering skyscraper, from the zenith of man's pride and material achievement, the camera descends relentlessly into the convenient hell of a meaningless marriage, into a dark and joyless night of the contemporary soul imagined with monstrous art by Michelangelo Antonioni, the somber master of cinema who made L'Avventura (TIME, April...
...farm he used to dream of so longingly that Larry nicknamed him "the plowboy"? Where is the child whom Albert named after Larry? Between them, husband and wife desolate the visitor with unsparing revelations. The farm was bought and bankrupted. The marriage is a sterile sham punctuated with joyless infidelities. And when the play at length gives away its key secret, the monstrous lot of the child, Larry's disillusionment is complete, for it turns out that he is dying of his old wounds and wanted to assure himself that saving Albert was not for nothing. At play...
...continuing shift to European investments will be accelerated with the coming to power of Max Nokin, who has made his career in the offices of Brussels instead of under the joyless African sun. But though there will be innovations, there will be no icon smashing. Says Nokin: "We have to change with the prudence expected of a woman who is 139 years...
Time Being is that the writer of the script knows her people and their backyards, as well as they know the patches on their clothes. And when Paul Bembroy discovers a new, or rediscovers an old, comet, his joyless and loveless life seems to have been justified...
...Side. A pastor's son, Heldt took early in life to the seamy back streets of Berlin of the '20s, where blank-faced men and women stood bathed in the ghostly light of a single street lamp or hung around restaurants and bars that were tense and joyless, as if the whole city knew of the dark days just ahead. After Hitler came to power, Heldt quit painting, became a kind of vagabond doing whatever jobs he could find. He was drafted into the army in World War II, and spent three months as a British prisoner...