Word: primally
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...Songs might also be called 9 Sex Acts, since it alternates between concert footage of such bands as Primal Scream and the Dandy Warhols and scenes depicting, in an unsensationally explicit fashion, the bedroom details of a summer affair. Matt (Kieran O'Brien) is a glaciologist, and Lisa (Margo Stilley) is a college girl visiting London. They have sex, go to a concert. Shag, song, shag, song. For 69 minutes...
Maybe Revolution is the mother country's revenge. Hugh Hudson memorialized Britain's play-fair pluckiness in Chariots of Fire, then suggested in Greystoke, that its weary civilization stifled man's best primal instincts. This time Hudson does not take sides. He hates 'em both. The Redcoats stagger across a battlefield like Monty Python twits; the colonists see defeat approaching and run like dogs. But this seems less cynical impartiality than a failure of craft. The film's central characters have virtually nothing to do with the winning or losing of the war. Working-class Boatsman Tom Dobb (Al Pacino...
...word but the ritual. Or so some of the most influential theorists of 20th century theater contend. Thus the avant-garde has sought to reinvigorate drama by going backward, to incantatory sound and allusive visual imagery. In the 1960s and 1970s, such experiments often evoked the grubby and primal. Lately artists like Robert Wilson have mined the elegant surrealism of dreams--and have willingly induced a drowsy semiconsciousness in audiences. Martha Clarke, a former modern dancer with the Pilobolus troupe, has traversed similar terrain in The Garden of Earthly Delights, echoing the Hieronymus Bosch painting that hangs in Madrid...
...prefer the Yard where one night freshman year some friends and I began a makeshift Primal Scream, half-naked, more drunk on life than on someone’s moonshine, gleefully befriending everyone we traipsed past; the one where earlier this year I and others made fruit juice atop a wooden press that my friend had constructed beneath the oak trees; the Yard where one night this year a dance party paraded, fueled by hundreds of portable radios; or the Yard through which a ragtag bunch marched with a bizarre, colorful, 10-foot fabric cube in the first snowfall...
What is Batman afraid of? What might give the moody masked millionaire the primal shakes? The answer-and it's an easy one if you stop to think about it-is bats. Those furry, whirry creatures traumatized little Bruce Wayne when he was a kid. He has other, more guilt-edged issues, involving his saintly parents, as well. When we first meet Bruce (Christian Bale) as a grownup, he has traveled far (to Asia) and fallen low (a Chinese prison) in an attempt to restore wellness to his troubled soul. Specifically, he joins up with a bunch of muscular moralists...