Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mynci. The band's Welsh nature and English pop sensibilities (crafted in the tradition of late-'60s Beatles or Beach Boys) were mostly lost on a polite but uninterested audience. Touring in support of their latest release Spanish Dance Troupe, the band played their heart out. Highlights included the raucous "Poodle Rockin'" and an acoustic interlude, complete with the soothing violin of Megan Childs. The band put on a good, energetic show, and it was sad to see the chilly reception for most...
What he probably didn't expect was the raucous standing ovation the Sixers fans, in an enemy stadium, gave him when they realized they had seen one of the NBA's 50 greatest players play his last game...
Introspection, contemplation--of what, exactly? That may be beside the point; the common refrain here is the chance to reflect simply on this raucous, wildly overpromoted night. When Minneapolis, Minn., public relations executive David Feider thinks about this New Year's Eve, for instance, he fantasizes about absconding to a hideaway along Lake Superior to "stare at the moon, as far away from the rabble as possible"--to escape not Y2K-prompted food riots or the Four Horsemen but rather the omnipresent buzz over the event. "I can't really identify with it anymore," he says. "People are getting...
...telling that none of them are in this show. Lisa Phillips, curator of the exhibition, manages to mimic the raucous energy of a half-century of American art in these overstuffed rooms (and frequently to confusing effect), yet it's clear who she thinks won the struggle for the soul of that art. Despite a token gallery or two thrown in at the end of the show that seem little more than a grab bag of hot names in the '90s, the real finale to the Whitney's survey comes just before these rooms...
...that raucous spirit that we see a series of modifications: The Crawfords, Austen's villains, are noticeably less distasteful and quite unabashedly sexual; in general, characters are more unguardedly flirtatious, witticisms a little sharper, plot changes less subtle; and crowning it all is the "sex scene". The infidelity discovered via implication in a letter in Austens novel becomes a visual, shocking debacle in the film, quite in character with the brash nature of the adaptation. Amazingly, the director has planned her story in a way that makes this acceptable by keeping with her more open, admittedly "extreme" tone throughout...