Word: pageant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partners, exclusionary businessmen, blind-sided artists and perpetrators of a patriarchy that had to be overthrown. Even Shakespeare was a sexist for a little while. The press cut in on the dark carnival atmosphere, and in some measure contributed to it. On the occasion of a Miss America pageant, a marginal faction of young women threw their underwear into an Atlantic City, N.J., garbage can, attempting some clumsy metaphorical gesture, and grabbed headlines, air time and a disproportionate share of posterity. If "libbers" were the dreary drones of the movement, "bra burners" were the lacy lunatic fringe. (A note...
...fame as the rescuer of the Peking Man. The Blue-Eyed Shan completes a trilogy of novels set in the Orient that the author began with The Chinese Bandit (1975) and The Last Mandarin (1979). The new book stands on its own but also adds considerably to the vivid pageant of the East that Becker has been creating. Read together, all three tales would more than compensate for the rainiest week at the beach...
Usually, it is only from the safety of retrospect and an established self that we entertain ourselves with visions of an alternative life. The daydreams are an amusement, a release from the monotony of what we are, from the life sentence of the mirror. The imagination's pageant of an alternative self is a kind of vacation from one's fate. Kierkegaard did not really mean he should have been a police spy, or Nixon that he should have been a sportswriter. The whole mechanism of daydreams of the antiself usually depends upon the fantasy remaining fantasy. Hell...
...characters to quirky behavioral life, but every reaction shot, every unfinished phrase or repeated sentence means that many moments stolen from the Doctorow overview. Forman has taken as gospel the novel's epigraph-Scott Joplin's admonition, "It is never right to play ragtime fast"-reduced a pageant to an anecdote, and sacrificed sweep for nuance. Grateful as one is to have this Ragtime, with its many thrilling performances and its spurts of emotional grandeur, one would now like to see the adaptation Altman might have made. And after that, if you please, the silent version. -By Richard...
...main story and one subplot-Coalhouse Walker's rise to notoriety and Evelyn Nesbit's career as America's first sex goddess-and only glances at or ignores the rest. By taking 155 minutes to tell less than half of Doctorow's 270-page pageant, Forman and Weller have created an impressive but strangely lopsided movie...