Word: pasteles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent past, they are waving off hard drugs and hard political lines in favor of good-time music and that oldest of adolescent verities: fun. Gone are the trademarks of yesteryear: denim fatigues, dove-crowned peace flags, bottles of Ripple wine. In their place can be found pastel tennis shoes, American flags and Tab. Many fans come in halter tops for a suntan and to be part of the carnival scene. They just want to dance boogie and sing along. Says Chicago Lyricist Robert Lamm, 30: "These days nobody wants to hear songs that have a message...
...fraud, but the film derives most of its interest not from the ethics or mechanics of chicanery but from its recreation of the rogue's paradise of inter war Europe. To a certain extent, facades are as important to film-makers as they are to bankers, and Resnais's pastel facade is everything you could ask for--intricate, exotic, and above all pleasing...
...secrets dies with him, he is laid out in a statuesque repose that is not dismaying. The unrelenting beauty of the film gives it almost all of its impact, you can wallow in it and you can hardly escape seduction to at least that extent. Everything is painted in pastel; Deauville and Biarritz; corks popping out of magnums of Moet & Chandon; Rolls-Royces and Hispano-Suizas; tuxedoes and boutonniere roses; country houses with immaculate lawns; Alps, pale sandstone rocks beneath pale aquamarine waves, and flowers, thousands of them, everywhere. You don't think much about politics in a setting like...
...classic case--fated to frustration, needless to say--is the lovesick student who hopes that his heart can flame forth anew after the fire of a once-torrid affair has been snuffed out in the frigid winter. As women fill the streets of Cambridge in their low-cut pastel dresses, as men walk by in their tight-fitting T-shirts, this unattached youth sighs in paralysis at the endless possibilities passing by Sadly the student pauses in the reading of Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy to dream of the distant beach or nightclub where a future mate languishes...
...overall impression of the Washington temple, with its thick carpets, pastel velour upholstery and soft lights, suggests a posh hotel more than a church...