Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contemporary critical scene has yet to absorb such a blow. While Dada was a shameless exposure of all that has been considered "holy in art," it was propelled by a laughter going so deep that a topsy-turvy admiration set in. This admiration clapped for the funeral of the "holy in art" and substituted a new formula holiness--founded in' a 'mix of playfulness, curiosity, and contradiction. And so is bred the Dadaist caricatuue of the seventies...
...didn't you throw Mr. Liddy out of your office?" Responded Mitchell coolly: "Well, I think, Mr. Dash, in hindsight I not only should have thrown him out of the office, I should have thrown him out of the window." Persisted Dash: "Well, since you did neither [laughter], why didn't you at least recommend that Mr. Liddy be fired?" Again Mitchell agreed: "Well, in hindsight, I probably should have done that...
...three, A Touch of Class, is so disarmingly witty and charming a film that when the lights come on and the laughter goes off the contradictions of plot seem vague and unmemorable. But the other two films are so dramatically feeble that their crude manipulation of attitudes is blatantly offensive. 40 Carats and Interval have identical beginnings: a car driven by an unmarried, middle-aged woman has broken down in a far-off romantic land. In both films, a man stops to help. In both, the woman soon falls in love with a much younger man. 40 Carats stars...
...remain until Thompson's predicted collapse of evil forces. Thompson retains his gonzo journalistic stance but tempers it with political analysis. He acknowledges implicitly that one can deal with present reality, however twisted it appears. As brilliant and funny as it is, "Fear and Loathing" requires nothing but hysterical laughter and self-indulgence while biding time before the apocalypse. And as Thompson admits, "As true gonzo journalism, this doesn't really make it -- and even if it did, I couldn't possibly admit it. Only a goddam lunatic would write a thing like this and then claim...
...impoverished family--is tight; their family protects them from the outside world. Cozily ensconced, they cope with various emotional and moral problems while the Civil War rages in the background, sensed but not really perceived. Anybody can remember her adolescent tears shed at Beth's death and the laughter at Jo's contests with Aunt March...