Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American public, suffering through assassinations, war, technocracy, revolt and recession, had eventually to suffer metal fatigue. "Systems die, instincts remain" observed Oliver Wendell Holmes. Unable and unwilling to rely on institutions or revolution, the U.S. has fallen back on pure feeling. The reaction is ominously reminiscent of the '30s and '40s, an epoch beyond the memory of the young?who nonetheless repeat its rhythms...
...carried with it the possibility of getting terribly out of hand. And we continued to laugh: through Redstone's speech; through some guy telling us how Segal had written the screen play in just one weekend ("The Lost Weekend," someone yelled back): through another guy's apostrophe to this "pure and simple love story" (a premarital affair between a foul-mouthed Cliffie and an Oedipal jock is now by Hollywood's eyes pure and simple ?); through a third's attempt to thank Pusey sidekick Bentinck-Smith (although he kept mispronouncing it Benting ) for allowing the film crew on campus...
...somewhere in the sun: he with his Hawaiian shirt and baggy Bermuda shorts and festooned camera equipment, she with her blue sunglasses, red slacks and gold sandals, both staring with puzzled receptiveness at-what? A palm tree? A Morris Lapidus facade? Hanson has pinned down the fragile particularity of pure banality. There may seem to be something too easy, almost flip, about this kind of social anatomization...
Catch-22. Alan Arkin was transcendent in Mike Nichols' perverse adaptation, which missed the comedy but captured the pure terror of the Joseph Heller novel...
HOMER is a well-intentioned film about a young man's growing intolerance for his parents, his home town and his life in Middle America. Too often the script is predictable, the situations pure pasteboard. But Director John Trent has a subtle feeling for the nuances of small-town life, and scenes such as a going-away party for a Viet Nam-bound soldier are filled with a sense of quiet poetry that might have pleased Sherwood Anderson. In the cast are Tisa Farrow, Mia's preternaturally sensual younger sister, and (as Homer) a robust young actor named...