Word: murmurous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Louis Malle's Murmur Of The Heart, Friday and Saturday...
...Murmur of the Heart. This week I run the risk of discrediting myself with superlatives. Louis Malle's Souffle de Coeur is one of the funniest films ever made, and certainly the Funniest Film About Incest ever made. It captures French bourgeois life with the accuracy of a Palestinian guerrilla looking for hostages. The spinach throwing scene is the best piece of cinematic slapstick since Chaplin. The subtler pieces are all there too: the way the mother, for example, sits down on the bed in the hotel room before agreeing to take the room is a gesture peculiar...
...economic miracle also created a new middle class that began to murmur about the need for social freedoms and political privileges to accompany the economic advances. Franco, determined to maintain firm control over all aspects of Spanish life, would not sanction such reforms and indeed did not understand the need for them. Students demonstrated for educational reforms at universities in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Santiago, Valencia and Seville and doggedly battled police who sought to stop them. Liberal priests and moderate bishops changed the Roman Catholic Church from a staunch supporter of the regime to an independent and often critical force...
...feel the atmosphere of frenzied Fenway, a national anthem which was sung by the kids in section 33 as if it was tailor made for drunks; the pre-game crowd chatter, the constant murmur of indistinguishable jock-talk, like a quick search for a station on the car radio...
...political protest struggling to be born out in the country. If it makes it self heard, eventually it may ask something like this: Why are we repeatedly forced to choose our Presidents from the Congress? There is no rebellion yet, but there is at least a rising murmur at the spectacle of ten of the 16 presidential possibilities being products of Capitol Hill...