Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the hand of Ruisdael; but the script is often awkward and the acting consistently crude. Yet the picture is a moving experience. Il Grido means The Cry, and the cry comes from the heart. With it, Antonioni opens the aorta of his talent and releases the cold grey mainstream of his feeling, the chilling theme of all his art: that modern man has somehow lost the meaning of his life, that God alone knows when he will find it again, and that God may not exist...
...minister is likely to be a factory worker himself, secure in the Pentecostal belief that "a man of God with a Bible in his hand has had training enough." Whether he calls his church Pentecostal or Holiness or Church of God, he emphasizes an event usually glossed over by mainstream Protestants: the Pentecost, 50 days after the Resurrection, when the Holy Spirit descended upon Christ's apostles...
...admired the stagy effects of the Hudson River school, but neither at home nor during his travels abroad did he ever fall for long under the influence of any one group or man. In everything he did, as a matter of fact, he was a bit out of the mainstream. He was a Swedenborgian, a single taxer, a man who would go to just about any lengths to avoid putting on a new suit. He would work without stopping for 15 hours at a stretch, would often compulsively paint a picture on top of another before the first was even...
...wouldn't want anyone to sit on the sidelines today when so much goes on in the mainstream ... So I hope that you come in and join us, because the water is not too cold...
...forbid that I should ever commit myself to a "retirement" city. Granted that my bones will creak, my hair will grey, but to cut myself off from the swingy zing of the mainstream of life would really make...