Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commentary on the class nature of its own images, on the political repression of signs and symbols with vertical, class implications for the benefit of pure representation, appropriation, fetishism of objects. Kjell learns about the pleasures of pure aesthetics from the liberal, cultured wife of the factory owner. The joyous pronunciation of "Pierre Auguste Renoir" becomes a sign for irresponsible privilege and political obliviousness in a sequence intercut with familiar images of Kjell's mother doing washing for the rich. Widerbeg demonstrates the duplicity of his own horizontal aestheticism in a context of social inequalities a hierarchy of wealth...
...rock beat. What follows this seemingly incongruous prelude is a swirling, eye-and ear-catching panoply of ballet maneuvers, from chastely classic lifts to Broadway shuffles, set to an eclectic score (by Alan Raph and Lee Holdridge) that blends the modish and the modal. The climax is a joyous, foot-stamping, yet thoroughly unblasphemous rock version of the Ite, missa est chant that ends the Latin Mass. At the diminuendo finale, the dancers lay rows of votive lights across the stage and drift silently, monkishly, into the wings...
...sense of fun. I felt a kind of amused affection for him, like, 'Oh. Dick, come off it.'" However, Nixon really let go the night he learned he had won a scholarship to Duke Law School. "We had fun that night," Ola Florence says. "He was joyous, abandoned-the only time I remember him that...
There are also a number of disconcertin, sniggering (and sometimes sexist) jokes running throughout the film-such as a joyous intercourse scene in which Nicholson incongruously wears a T-shirt, only so that he can reveal the legend "Triumph" on its front once he has achieved orgasm...
...freezing point, yet notes that "serious drinkers prefer their soda pop cold in the mouth, but not ice cold." He advises devotees to avoid smoking while sampling, but admits that a mellow root beer enhances the flavor of a good cigar. "To see the delicacy of a light, joyous celery tonic smothered by a cloud of gray smoke," Shorris laments, "is depressing to even the most casual connoisseur...