Word: materialistic
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...Chance? He would not win this game. In the first place he was a picayune materialist who constantly asked for new balls (One didn't learn until afterwards that Lonborg had penned "$10,000" on the pocket of his glove.) Furthermore Chance, was lazy. He relied on a driving, showboat follow-through to salvage an otherwise lackadasical delivery. While such tricks undoubtedly served him well in bed--one always associates Chance with Dean Martin and Bo Belinsky--they would not suffice against Lonborg's constant, balanced effort...
...materialist, I would guess, from the way he handles objects and from his obvious rage at ambiguity. If there's a door, he'll open it; it there's a curtain, he'll pull it aside. We're tipped off at the beginning of the picture when Lerner's and the camera's preoccupation is with the ring and the dagger, rather than with the body, which is scarcely examined and then only for a second's slap across the cheeks to be sure it's really dead. In the film's most immediately powerful sequence, he spells...
Poverty? Americans with bloated bellies? People living under bridges? Beggars in the street? Children dying for lack of doctoring? Of course not. Nonetheless, the U.S. has its angry, frustrated poor. People who do not suffer poverty tend to think of it in absolute, merely materialist terms of Dickensian squalor. In fact, poverty has to be measured relative to the rising standard of living, the tenderer social conscience, the national capacity for creating wealth. Poverty is the condition-and the awareness-of being left behind while, economically, everyone else is marching forward...
...Stijl was renunciation of the physical representation of things. His art was right-angular, asymmetrical, and colored only in the primaries of red, blue and yellow. All lines were straight-for the sake of the spirit. Wrote he: "Natural roundness, in a word, corporeality, gives a purely materialist version of objects." Followers of De Stijl designed furniture, built architecture and patterned typography, industrial and household items after its Mondrianesque rules of severity. This year Mondrian's rigid purism has been stretched over shapes more curvilinear than picture frames by Paris Fashion Designers Andre Courreges and Yves St. Laurent, with...
Seelenkleister, or brooding about the state of one's soul, has always been a pastime of the Germans, but now they have more than usual cause to engage in it. For years, the economic miracle represented a kind of occupational therapy, a materialist escape; while it remains the dominant fact in Germany, more and more people no longer find it enough. Germans are uneasy about their place in the world, impatient with the obstacles that loom on all sides, resentful of the contradictions in which they are forced to live...