Word: paean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blatant but inept imitation of Point Blank. While the violence in Point Blank defines some surreal and chilling points about the savagery of contemporary urban life, the mayhem in Get Carter is a gruesome and almost pornographic visual obsession. Fledgling DirectorMike Hodges clearly hoped to put together a jazzy paean to the classic detective story; the film's protagonist, in fact, is shown in a couple of scenes poring over a copy of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely. But Hodges seems to have learned more from Mickey Spillane...
...derision Wolfe heaps on Felicia Bernstein's Mary Astor accent towers over the loving paean he delivers to Carol Doda's plasticene breasts. But then Felicia is in, really in, and Carol, however notoriously, was always out. Felicia is the obvious target for the satirist's scorn. Wolfe could laugh with poor Carol, at her audience and at herself, but he can only laugh at dear Felicia. And so a sharpness enters his voice where it did not previously exist...
...leaders favor Britain's entry, samplings show 57% of the electorate is opposed. Wilson simply dodges the point, referring questioners to dull previous statements. Heath has been somewhat more forthright. But in Portsmouth, after hailing the potential benefits to Britain of Common Market membership, Heath wound up his paean by saying that "no British government could take the British people into the Common Market against their will...
...punchy than the original, the other just a shade more dawn-lit. Best of the borrowed songs, though, are his soft-slippered strolls through the California Gold Rush song Days of '49 and the woodsmoky American folk song Copper Kettle, as well as a brisk canter down that paean to a restless heart, Gotta Travel...
...down the decorum of the place." In Meat ???corum-breakdown is accomplished by poems ??? pissing. Anal-fixative poetry is of course, as ??? as Chaucer and as current as what you read on ??? bathroom wall this morning. Since the poet ???ardly obsessed with this trick. one example. ??? the appropriately titled "Paean" is adequate...