Word: nightmarish
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...number early in the picture shows the dance-hall ladies, drenched in make-up and neon light, as they coldly ask each "big spender" to come on to the dance floor for "fun, laughs, and a good time." The song, full of cynical Dorothy Fields lyric, brings home in nightmarish tones that world where money turns sex into the sweaty throbbing of the mindless body...
...play in three tournaments against such golfing greats as Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. What happens to him in the process shouldn't happen to a golf ball. His nerve synapses collapse at the thought of the next day's match. His mind invents a nightmarish fantasy in which a team of inept Japanese admirals, located somewhere in his brain, shout useless instructions through the imaginary voice tubes of his creaking body machinery in an effort to help him hit the ball correctly...
...walls of the Sorbonne during last May's student insurrection. All the while, the orchestra plays a convoluted version of the third movement from Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony, as snippets of Debussy, Bach, Stravinsky and a dozen other composers float in and out of Berio's nightmarish stream of semiconsciousness. In one sense, the words do not matter; Berio is not interested in making a song. He is communicating a kind of life attitude that shrinks at the prospect of some unnamable terror. It is a musical collage of headlines persistently giving a warning of holocaust...
...Wallace generation. Like the candidate himself it offers reassurance to a lot of scared people, it tells 'em what they want to hear. And, depending on how you want to take it, "Mod Squad" can be a good larf or an evil little phenomenon with nightmarish implications...
...rush of events in the West, the world has all but forgotten the continuing torment of Tibet, which was first invaded in 1950 by the Communist Chinese army and again two years ago by screaming Red Guards. Those successive onslaughts have transformed the land of Shangri-la into a nightmarish Himalayan hell...