Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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APPLIED TO THE SCENE at Las Vegas, gonzo journalism yields no explicit moral evaluations. It gives, rather, a detailed description of the desperate mood and frantic action epitomized by crowds surrounding the crap tables, "still humping the American Dream, that vision of the Big Winner somehow emerging from the last-minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino...
...episodes are pure fantasy, but Thompson's first person account -- a combination of fastpaced action, immediate detail and extended dialogue -- lends them an air of realism or at least exaggerated fact. The element of fantasy gives an excuse to succumb to the book's outrageous humor, but the underlying mood is one of paranoia and repulsion. That is namely Thompson's "fear and loathing" of a Dream that mesmerizes people so completely, as they gorge their egos with dollars, that they are blind to social responsibility...
...John Berryman the poet as well: the "Huffy Henry...wicked and away" of the Dream Songs, the narcissistic writer in Love and Fame "obsessed with a vanishing past of happiness in his present loneliness and age." Together, these intertwining images of the poet and the man set an appropriate mood for the curious confessional tone of Recovery. The novel is, after all, Berryman's own account of his attempted recovery from alcoholism...
...itself to take on a larger meaning. But the aggressive individualism of the film is only a means of survival in difficult times. It is not the celebration of a life style of personal irresponsibility. It makes no difference that fooling widows and robbing shopkeepers is immoral -- this particular mood of freedom from other people's laws and feelings is the most spirited aspect of the film. You delight in seeing the attractive duo get away with their tricks. They play their games with wit and style and enjoy each other's company immensely. When they're together you have...
...President's mood, said Warren, was "very good"; he discussed the business at hand "with determination." But after the upbeat and invigorating week of the Brezhnev summit, Nixon found himself hemmed in by Dean's relentless Watergate testimony on one hand and on the other by a recalcitrant Congress determined to force him to stop bombing Cambodia...