Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brooks went back to the '30s ostensibly looking for a sci-fi classic to spoof, and got carried away. At first he appears to be parodying the original Dr. Frankenstein, made forty years ago. In fact, he takes his original material quite seriously and treats it with respect. He has to; he's not only getting story, structure and characters gratis, but he's getting a perfect medium for parody of a much broader scope. Dr. Frankenstein was a first, a great film, which provoked a rash of science fiction movies over the next decade or so that decreased...
...Brooks's respect for his material is partly shown by his faithfulness to the original film: He has stunningly recaptured its style and its effects with black and white film, an ancient-sounding though perfectly intelligible sound track, astonishingly authentic-looking sets, and lots of dry ice on the ground. In a different way he shows even more respect for the book. The romantic writers were preoccupied with the relationship between artist and creation, and in her novel Mary Shelley explored the consequences of the creator's inability to accept responsibility for his creation. One only has to see Young...
...also has to do with all the things that people say about American child-rearing patterns, and parents not having any self-definition themselves in many cases. How many people really grow up in families where there is both open warmth and sexuality and also really mutual respect and equality between the parents? It's just not around, and many of the two-career families that one sees are families where the other dimension is just not apparent in the relationship between the couple. There can be something about career pressures that can kill the possibility of a complicated emotional...
...concluded that while five of the sites could "physically accommodate the library, availability and cost factors are serious concerns with respect to all of them...
...celebrate May Day, Bok eats dinner with Wendell Furry, professor of Physics, and lays off all women employed at Harvard. "I take this action out of respect for the time-honored tradition of good labor relations," Bok says. "Last hired, first fired," "Back to the bedroom," F. Skiddy von Stade '38, master of Mather House, chuckles...