Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film makers were at pains to include footage in which Joplin talks about "feeling good." She comes off like Little Miss Good vibes, a wild flower of the love generation who wilted for reasons unspecified. Far worse than being merely sentimental, Janis is dishonest, dishonoring her talent by dismissing the personal turmoil that underscored...
William Fregosi's sets are fine, and so is Frank Racette's band; if the chorus is often hard to understand, it's only the lyrics that you miss. The main point, though, is that unlike the yogurt that the Pudding includes in one of its many silly promotional deals, Mark O'Donnell seems to be mellowing with...
...latter age, ascetism is not what it once was, and Marshfield gets to expiate his sins in fairly comfortable surroundings--a motel, actually. He is forbidden serious "intrapersonal or doctrinal" conversation, non-escapist reading material, and the Word of God as set down in Holy Scriptures (Marshfield doesn't miss the irony of his situation--who ever heard of a motel without Bibles?) His nights are to be devoted to poker, his days to golf. (You have to imagine that his motel is situated in a large oasis.) Above all, and this is where the real expiation comes in. Marshfield...
...time, and there's no way I can't make astounding progress.' What I'd really like to be able to do is say to myself, today I'll practice twice as hard for four or five hours, and tomorrow I won't practice at all. But if I miss one day, I panic. I feel incredibly guilty. There's this fear of guilt in me which goes so deep I can't even approach to explain it. And there's this lack of faith in my ability, this lack of confidence in myself, as well. There are many factors...
There are times when I put aside the camera. Forgo the image...Charlie Olchowski once told me Diane Arbus would do anything for a photograph--absolutely anything, go anywhere, to get what she wanted...Since by now I know I have limits and see what pictures I miss because of them. I can understand how that willingness to go forward, that final act to do it, get it, take it, is fundamental to her genius. It separates her from the rest...