Word: mope
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...party but refuses to have fun, Robert Smith, lead singer of the CURE, knows the seductive power of denial. Drifting over dirgelike beats and churning guitars, Smith's alienated lyrics and choked-up vocals have helped make the Cure the most accomplished and popular purveyors of British Mope Rock. On Wish, album No. 12, the band continues to fuse harmonic innovation with New Wave nihilism. Smith allows himself fleeting moments of optimism, and on one song actually uses the word happy. By the time the record closes with End, however, he has slipped back into a funk, realizing that "tired...
...this gloomy view. Here it is two artists: the late French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol and the French director Yves Robert, who have collaborated across the generations on two airily magnificent movies, My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle, adapted from Pagnol's memoirs. These films mope not; neither do they scold. Instead, audaciously, they take a vacation from fatalism and solemnity, locating radiance in the bosom of an ordinary bourgeois family. They say that life can be beguiling, beautiful -- at least in the storybook clarity of Pagnol...
...Desdemona, runs wildly from the theater because she objects to being strangled. The gossip supplied is that Felicia was a victim of incest, Vane a man of pallid sexuality and, oh dear, some great British Shakespeareans were homosexuals. A wholly unbelievable murder clears the stage for a mushy, mope-happily-ever-after ending. Tomorrow is another book...
...believe in the Moping Dog doctrine. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about the inconsistencies of human behavior: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...
...label should be at least binary, like Dickens' "the best of + times, the worst of times," again no metaphor. It is a fallacy to think there is one theme. Like all ages, it is a time of angels and moping dogs -- after Ralph Waldo Emerson's lines: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...