Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abroad, said Sisco, "the perception of the U.S. in the world today is that we have become paralyzed as a result of the Viet Nam syndrome." However, Sisco finds the public mood changing more rapidly than policymakers realize: "I am absolutely convinced that the Viet Nam syndrome is not broadly shared in the U.S., that the American people went through a psychological trauma at the gas station in 1974, and they are damned tired of appearing to be pushed around. I believe the American people have largely put Viet Nam behind them: they know what we are talking about when...
...BEGINS HOPEFULLY, the bare, carefully-crafted prose interspersed with a Yiddish irony that lightens its mood. Dubin's wife Kitty has a compulsion to smell the gas burners on the stove to make sure they are not leaking. Once she leaves the house without performing the ritual: "Kitty hastily reentered the house, hurried into the kitchen, fighting herself. Herself...
...point of his career was in the 1940s. He decided, in a mood of perversity, to paint "modern art" -pictures full of impressionist fuzz and expressionist slather. The Gorgon, 1943, a wretched parody of Monet applied to a surrealist syntax, may be the least inept of these. If anything, they showed how far Magritte's real gifts lay from the orthodox processes of modernism. Nor did his first essays in the surrealist manner, done in 1925-26, indicate much about the artist to come; they are, for the most part, grab bags of motifs from other painters, chiefly Ernst...
WELCOME AS THEY ARE, these funny moments make the play's mood inconsistent. Because Simon is re-creating, even exorcising, a personal anguish, he fails to balance pathos and humor as skillfully as he might have. In the second act, when the marriage begins to show signs of strain, an affair between Leo and Faye abruptly surfaces in an obvious attempt to give the play a little comic relief. This humorous interlude begins promisingly: Leo's attempts to calm the skittish Faye and disentangle her from a toga-style bed-sheet provide the most hysterical moments in Chapter...
Feets Don't Fail Me Now. Herbie Hancock's newest display of ingenuity packs every bit of his amazing style into six diverse tracks. Hancock controls the method and the mood in Feets, an album worthy of the freshness of his thought...