Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MORE THAN A MIRACLE. An utterly mindless but endearing fairy tale starring Sophia Loren as a peasant girl who wins the hand of the prince (Omar Sharif), who hadn't liked the seven princesses his mother had lined up for him anyway...
When the lilting strains of "Oh Come all Ye Mindless" failed to bring even a secretary to the windows of University Hall yesterday afternoon, Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society decided to take their Yuletide cheer to the people of Cambridge...
MORE THAN A MIRACLE. An utterly mindless but endearing fairy tale starring Sophia Loren as a peasant girl who wins the hand of the prince (Omar Sharif), who hadn't liked the seven princesses his mother had lined up for him anyway...
...words are almost entirely variations on "You say yes-I say no-You say goodbye-I say hello". Serious fans read into this a put-down of the hippies' offhand and mindless acceptance of everything and everybody. They're pretty much right. But it doesn't matter: the song is quite catholic and can readily mean anything you feel like when you say hello...
...expressed not so much by camera trickery as by its yoking of disparate elements into a coherent artistic whole-the creation of unity from in congruity. Blending humor and horror, it draws the audience in sympathy toward its antiheroes. It is, at the same time, a commentary on the mindless daily violence of the American '60s and an esthetic evocation of the past. Yet it observes the '30s not as lived but as remembered, the perspective rippled by the years to show that there are mirages of time as well as space. The nostalgic Technicolor romanticism alters reality...