Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospital, however, the claustrophobic feeling engendered by the rules and restrictions of the Combine is lacking. Even the basic process symbolized by the story, of democracy and individualism trying to shake off the hand of authority, fails to emerge clearly. The inmates seem rather like a bunch of raucous boys at prep school, or the junior members of a family where father where father McMurphy fights with mother Big Nurse for dominance in their sick little world...
Russell films as if life were a field day for the senses, but senses robbed of the emotions that give them substance. He makes Gaudier-Brzeska's tragic sex life into a raucous wrestling match, and uses dazzling film effects as if they came off a camera's vanity table. As he wallows in style he turns what should be a tribute into an exercise in his taste for the absurd. This is simply anti-erotic and all too conventional...
...headquarters of Studds' opponent, William W. Weeks '49 was, by contrast, raucous. Bands blared out old campaign favorites like "Happy Days Are Here Again" and "Feelin' Groovy...
...more mannered, even more unapproachable to the layman. Yet it is possible to accomodate the listeners and not sacrifice the newer sounds available in composition. Martino's Seven Pious Pieces, last Sunday morning's anthem at Memorial Church, exhibited a graceful modernity in contrast to the often-raucous exercises choirs deliver in contemporary pieces...
...development. This section features several passages of frantic tension, reminiscent of Ravel's Fetes (from Trois Nocturnes), written more than ten years before Daphnis et Chloe. The three sections of the suite are played without pause, and Mr. Mehta achieved true continuity among all three, finally building into a raucous and jubilant climax at the end of the work...