Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives she recounts were on a world historical plane. She blames emotional vacuums in her political life on her place in history. Had she been born a decade earlier, to use Gornick's own gushing framework, her adolescent crush on the Old Left may have developed into a mature passion. Ten years in the other direction and she could have "realized herself" in the glorious Sixties. Instead, she grew up as a mildly disgruntled member of the silent generation, rousing herself to march sluggishly in the Rear Guard of the New Left. Then feminism revolutionized her life. She re-examined...
...feminist 15 years later, she watched closely as consciousness succumbed to rigid rhetoric. But for Gornick, the knowledge that "dogma was the kiss of death for all thought" was cathartic. At long last, she forgave the Communists for their mistakes and began again to love them for their passion...
...political outrage that fed their "caring," she harps on their emotional needs. Human beings, she tells us in a remarkable burst of insight, need to find meaning in life. Moreover, she reveals, people need to overcome feelings of isolation. The Party was an elixir for those seekers of passion and politics...
...Hoffman vehicle-misplaced guts. The story of a compulsive small-time crook with a lousy past and a doomed future, Straight Time makes a fetish of refusing the audience any frills. The movie aims only to describe its unappealing protagonist as coolly as possible-without tears or laughs or passion. This it accomplishes, but at a very steep price: while Straight Time offers a convincing portrait of a loser, it never gives us any reason to care whether the portrait is genuine...
...that was rock. The teenagers at the rock show are so lively the police--the bad guys--threaten to stop the show--which leads to The Line of this movie--"You can stop the show, but you can't stop rock and roll," which McIntyre delivers with all the passion he is ever able to muster...