Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think...that...kids have always had things to bitch about in this country; it's like, the war was one thing, staying out too late is another, and they don't look similar but they are. This world is so controlled that everything happening has some effect on your life. And I think that when it seems that everyone's runnin' your life, you have to scream. You know? Scream to hear you're there," she said in a high, quiet, somewhat squeamish voice. She was talking mostly about punk, about her first album, "Horses," and the musical movement with...
...yarns of repressive society, but perhaps it is because they are the ones in control. The truth is that any society sets standards, and ours sets quite a few. When those standards become so complex and exacting that your mind feels full of pins and needles and your life is spent on everything but yourself...
...surface, it appeared quite simple. Felker has spent lavishly to turn the sophisticated men's monthly into a more macho twice-monthly, with expanded coverage of law, business, sports and gadgets of the good life. Yet advertisers remained cool to the venture, losses mounted, and Felker had to give Harmsworth most of his own stock in Esquire in return for more working capital. "The foundation for a successful publication had been made, and I could definitely see the time two years from now when we would be in the black," Felker insisted. "We were putting out a magazine that...
BASEBALL INTRINSICALLY rejects the cult of personality, the People magazine approach to life. Sure, ballplayers have personalities; but they develop personalities on the field as well--DiMaggio's kingly elegance, Ryne Duren's fastball-to-the-loge weirdness. Thurman Munson's combative surliness--and, in the end, these personalities are more engaging. For the most part, you get these personalities in The Yankees, personalities on grass and clay, not carpeting. Your team, maybe, Remember Ross Moschito...
...characters declare their problems bluntly to each other, instead of living them out or summing them up in an act. Bergman's characters can get away with stating their naked feelings because he elevates their conversations from daily life. When Allen uses these declarations to comic effect they work, but as serious character-building they don't. Diane Keaton's character--a pushy writer, neurotic like everyone else in the movie--declares, 'I come from Philadelphia, and I believe in God!" and Allen has scored both a laugh and and illumination of her character. She blurts, "I'm beautiful...