Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dream machines were the phonograph and the movie projector, but they worked songs and pictures that opened romantic vistas so different from today's defined and redefined motion-coloring-books. The surpisingly good production at South House evokes Menagerie's melancholy past but knows also our electro-mood present and cries beautifully at the future that has passed into everlasting regret...
...offended when it goes unfulfilled. Never maudlin or saccharine, he grafts the mentality of the Rugged Individualist onto a compassionate New Deal liberal. After Robert Kennedy's assassination, he says, "Think of all the fat little editorial writers sitting down at their typewriters, putting themselves in a properly melancholy mood and then dashing off an inspired article on "the shame of America." He then talks about the real shame of America: the failure of the cowards in Congress to approve gun control...
...audiences appear so carnivorous that Rose's on-stage death seems sacrificial. Everything looks drugged out and messy. Not only messy in a physical sense, with all of Rose's glimmering, filthy rags and feathers, but also in a spiritual sense. The crowd scenes capture the alienated, frenetic mood of the late '60s. The Rose portrays the jarring disillusionment caused by the American Dream going bust...
...this week that they will refuse to verify their student status by appearing before federal immigration officials unless President Carter's order requiring such action is proved legal. The students maintain correctly that Carter's action represents a "classic case of bending the legal system to suit the prevailing mood...
...color, the jagged rifts of blue or vermilion breaking through a matrix of dense enveloping black, are no metaphors of the Grand Canyon or the Rockies, nor do the flickering shapes literally allude to flame or cloud. They are meant to convey a sense of pantheistic energy, of intense mood and vigorously articulated feeling-to substitute, in fact, for nature it self. For Still's admirers, this invites comparison with the greatest lyrical nature cycle in modern art, Monet's Water Lilies. Still's vocabulary is too narrow, his style too hectoring and coarse for that...