Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being rooted out, for instance, or an elephant attacking a Land-Rover. These are infrequent, however, and when they do occur are likely as not to have an expository fillip. The feature-length movie is much taken up with wild-animal footage. It was probably intended to convey a notion of the primitive majesty Ross was leaving behind, but after a while it comes to seem like padding, like rather elaborate vacation footage. A true or deep sense of this land, of the people who in habit it, or indeed of the two men who help supervise and maintain...
...Morrissey, who was responsible also for Heat, Trash and Flesh. The movie features the usual Morrissey crew: harpies, fag hags, neuters and no-talents clutter up the screen and pop out of it in 3D, which is two more dimensions than they would provide without technological assistance. The prevailing notion is a retooling of Mary Shelley, en cumbered with dismal sex and heaping portions of grue. Limbs, entrails and corpses come whizzing over the heads of the audience, along with various bats and other creatures of horror fiction. As so often with Morrissey, the joke wears thin fast, destroyed...
...fallen in love with those complicated fictions of moral anguish" he keeps reading about. The depths of tragedy-that, Tarnopol thinks, is what an artist and a man must plumb. He yearns romantically to be a golden loser as well as a golden winner. Furthermore, he has a notion that one must prove one's manhood, not on the battlefields of war (like old-style machismo novelists) but in the combat zones of love. Nor is he fantasizing sexual conquest. For, paradoxically, what woman represents to Tarnopol is "the testing ground, not for potency, but virtue." (Like "keeping...
...bridges the gap between the two cultures, discoursing on everything from the Mona Lisa to the construction of Rheims Cathedral. He demonstrates how the flowering of art and architecture was a natural out growth of expanding knowledge in mathematics and the rules of perspective. Bronowski also corrects the popular notion that the Industrial Revolution simply forced man to give up rural pleasures for urban horrors. This revolution, he points out, freed man from age-old social strictures, creating a new aristocracy of talent...
...eyed bandit leader, hunter, torturer, demon and figment. (An anagram of Ratanous, possibly relevant, is "our Satan.") The father has confused memories of skirmishes with Ratnose in the days when he fished the Hassayampa as a young man. His mind is seized and shaken by the mad notion of stalking Ratnose once more, beating him down, killing...