Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with dishonesty movies, and the dishonesty was heaviest in those geared to youth: Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, Getting Straight, or Strawberry Statement, all exploitation "message" movies cashing in on a youth movie fad. They indulge in gratuitous technique, fancy pans, flash forwards and fast cutting; they splurge on a nouveau artistry that distorts our perspectives by filching half the evidence...
...impressed by the intellectual ferment in France, particularly "the discussions influenced by Claude Levi-Strauss and the structuralists on one side and the Sartre pupils on the other." But except for the novels of Michel Butor and Claude Simon, whom he considers the most talented exponents of the nouveau roman, the "new novel" that is no longer very new, he is unimpressed with French belles-lettres. "One can already find an epitaph for the new novel-'too boring...
...RAPHAELITES bequeathed little of artistic importance to the generations that followed them. Stylistically their flatness of design and elaboration of detail verged on the decorative and gave impetus to Beardsley and Art Nouveau. Yet what they were doing was in no way as radical or influential as what their contemporaries across the Channel, the Impressionists, were doing. If the pre-Raphaelites contributed anything to the mainstream of modern art, it was an attitude. They were the first to rebel against the heavily sentimentalized genre scenes of the academy schools. Compared to these soap operas in paint, the Pre-Raphaelites looked...
...Nouveau artist named Mucha...
...those years, selling conventional quality to the New York pubic post, and condeming out of hand many genuinely inovative films. Then there was Renata Adler's stints "A Year in the Dark," as she put it--when the Times managed an abrupt turn-around and welcomed even the most nouveau of the New Wave output. For the last three years, we've been condemned to Vincent Canby--perhaps the least distinguished writer the Times has had in a major reviewing post, as much an industry gadfly as critic (perhaps accounted for by his training on Variety...