Word: rad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consider films in increasingly political terms. The reception of The Candidate made it seem that earlier attempts by Haskell Wexler and Emile de'Antonio had prepared U.S. critics at long last for a film which at least broached contemporary issues. Even The Trial of the Catonsville Nine a lib-rad pageant released in early June received much kinder treatment from the press due to political leanings which film critics would probably not have generally taken into consideration a few years back...
...inspired by the New Left's guru Herbert Marcuse, who, having seen Oldenburg's drawings, announced that "there is a way in which this kind of satire, or humor, can in deed kill. I think it would be one of the most bloodless means to effect a rad ical change." Oldenburg's response took the form of a vast red lipstick which telescoped up and down, stiff ening and softening, from Caterpillar tracks. It was polemical, a mixture of cosmetic, phallus and rocket carrier - the ultimate weapon. The fate of this work was as appropriate...
...plenty of that, and some melodrama, in Rabbit Redux, and the novel is every bit as complex as Updike's previous one. The politics are accurate, and interesting; Rabbit is a wavering hawk, his cagier father a sort-of populist, his used-carlot-owning in-laws, fashionably lib-rad. The changing landscape is vigorously perceived: the social differentiations between tract housing developments and more wooded lots, plastic hamburger stands moving ever-closer towards the heart of the old city. Dominant metaphors resonate with historical substance. As Rabbit journeys, the theater marquee goes from 2001 to TRUE GRIT to 2001 (returned...
...Most of the seniors I've talked to support this demonstration," a Rad-cliffe senior said after the meeting. "I think most of the class will participate...
ALAS, a lot of water's gone under the bridge since 1956. Those British who sadly watched the resolution of the Suez War have been getting pleasure and revenge in watching the rise and fall of another empire. And the more successful rad-lib playwrights and filmmakers found national values immutable and moved on to Hollywood...