Word: recoil
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...communications, internationally linked economies, and nuclear weapons that can bridge continents at Mach 23 speed. Properly speaking, the term suggests someone who would like to disengage the U.S. from the rest of the world and return to a 19th century insularity. No doubt some Americans are experiencing an emotional recoil from foreign commitments, as a result of Viet Nam and domestic troubles. But apart from a small group of myopic radicals totally obsessed with the need for revolution at home, there are hardly any real isolationists left...
...first main sequence Julius enters a room in which the cameras are filming Peter making it with another homosexual for a skinflick. As Julius (Chaikin) watches, we see him recoil. The grating voice of the man behind the camera tries to sell him: Come around again, it's not so bad, Love can't be bad, ch Julius? The man behind the camera promises to show Julius the film. You'll be in the movies, Julius, big... up on the screen. The movie is a prostituting medium and Julius r?i?cts it; he refuses to become an actor...
KOBAYASHI is looking for something more in his ghost stories than horror. His end is not an emotional recoil through shock but a sensuous participation in the imaginary. He appeals to our fascination not our fears, with the result that he achieves that rare creation, a fantasy without pretension...
...often it hears a Nixon argument tailored to a segment of the public. The curious paradox of Nixon is that even when he is intellectually prepared to act the statesman, he often explains himself through the inferior stratagems of the politician. Many who might rally to a policy recoil from the dissembling that accompanies it." In the end, says the editorial, "for all its underestimated qualities, the Nixon Administration falls short of the lift or the wisdom that the times require and the country longs...
...only "the reality of the reflection" and maintains a constant dialectic that makes his films argument rather than indoctrination. The Passion of Anna will admit no criticism into your experience of it. You must either embrace the Vision as "the reflection of reality," as Bergman intends, or else recoil from it and malign its director...