Word: louds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What finds favor here is young, loud and, except in its careerism, invincibly dumb. It wants to be winsomely outrageous as a form of ingratiation. Its mood is claustrophobic because its sense of history (i.e., anything that happened before Warhol, except for kitsch surrealism...
...there maybe two hours max, just long enough to run a quick case and find there's no bar and no smoking in the dining room or parlor, for crying out loud, when a writer name of Donald E. Westlake gets us all together to give us the story line. For openers, we ain't in the Mohonk Mountain House no more; we're in something called the Hotel Kuckkuckuhr, in Switzerland, and it's 1938. Then Westlake shows us this black-and-white flick that's more black than white, which is to say I'm talking poor quality...
That translates, in the social arena, into gregariousness. "He likes crowds," roommate, adding, in a dead-on imitation drink, let's party, let's be loud and obnoxious...
...atmosphere in the dining halls, as might be expected, was also quite different from today's, with formality and serenity instead of loud announcements from chairtops...
...last funny, sad, self-parodying joke as the lights go up: a loud, disapproving, male voice is heard over the loudspeaker, saying "Madonna, get down off that stage this instant!" And Madonna's recorded voice, whining, "Daddy, do I hafta?" Then the Wanna Be's, to whom the war between men and women is still far less real than the eternal skirmishing between parents and children, file out of the hall, dreaming of the time when they will be able to do anything in the world they want. Like Madonna...