Word: joyousness
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Tension, Tension. If his genius is joyous insanity, his approach is in painstaking earnest. He spends more than a year laboring on each script. "What you're after," he explains, "is to make a Mount Whitney of a picture. What you settle for is a wonderful snowball." The time in between, he says, is agony -"compression, remolding and restructuring-tension, tension, tension...
...Netherlands, where its sister company Philips provided its usual superior pressings, then shipped them back to be marketed as Golden Imports. Worth the premium price? Indeed these performances are, especially since they sound better than the originals. Not even Munch equaled Paray's way with Chausson's joyous heartbreaker. The concerti grossi are among the finest works of the now shamefully neglected Bloch, and Hanson reads them with snap and vigor...
...Ford cannot take the joyous reception at face value. Despite Seoul's modern high-rise buildings and well-clothed, well-fed people, South Koreans are increasingly restive under the repressive rule of President Park Chung Hee. In an attempt to stamp out dissent, he issued a series of decrees this year that almost completely gagged the Korean press. Further, his police rounded up more than 250 critics of the regime; some 200 still remain in prison...
...MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, also made by a Swiss, Alain Tanner (The Salamander), is as coolly intelligent and as subtle as La Paloma is giddy. The film concerns the intense affair between an engineer running for local political office (Philippe Leotard) and a waitress (Olimpia Carlisi). Their joyous mutual carnality nearly convinces them both that they were made for each other. The engineer still believes it, in fact, when the waitress leaves him. This film is wise in the ways and reasons people deceive themselves, rich in its exploration of the blindness that fervor can bring...
...first Education Minister before assuming -as a "man without enemies," in Premier David Ben-Gurion's phrase-the primarily ceremonial presidency. More traditional a Jew than many Zionist leaders, Shazar regularly played host to fellow Bible researchers at his official residence and was an active devotee of the joyous Hasidic movement...