Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...piercing fashion. Wycherly's whip lashes out at women, fops, wits, and lawyers as he peers into man's social nature. He beats the sores of hypocrisy and deception so raw that even today they are hard to ignore. His disgust is let loose on an age of paradox and perversity--an age not unlike our own, where a mere consciousness of the profound problems of human life is hardly a satisfactory solution...
...fashioned with a wonderful skill and high humor. A translation of Dumas' story, even a fairly respectful one, it is simultaneously a satire, sometimes antic, sometimes serious, a send-up of the whole tradition of romantic fiction. Such an accomplishment seems paradoxical, but the movie successfully cuts both ways, largely because Richard Lester is a film maker who specializes in standing paradox...
...Paradox Ahead." Yet it appears that Fogel's story never existed in a coherent written form. The insane narrator is eventually removed to a hospital for the criminally insane, and his father tells the police that his son's manuscript was nothing but pages of wavy lines, zigzags, dots, loops and dashes...
What, then, is the point? Author Jacobson naturally does not offer road signs: "Meaning ½ Mile," or "Slow Down, Paradox Ahead." The Wonder-Worker seems to be yet another modern parable of total cultural disintegration...
...cent of the popular vote, the Communists have been kept out of government coalitions in post-war Italy, Prodi said. "Over the years, the Communist Party has been too strong to be out of the government and too weak to be in it. It's a sort of paradox...