Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FILM BEGINS innocently enough: man on train lusts after shapely woman with ripe lips and big eyes. Once the feminist convention has burst onto the scene in all its mad-house glory, we know we're not in Kansas anymore. As thorough in his evocation of an Unreal City as both T.S. Eliot and Franz Kafka, Fellini creates an action-painting so surrealistic, so whirling, and so blinding that the ringing of an unseen telephone in several scenes seems an inexplicable and absurd reminder of everyday life...
...carefully paced intellectual striptease. Male armor is dropped to exhibit emotional paralysis; egos wrapped in tough independence are peeled away to show a tender reliance; Playboy fantasies dissolve in humiliating complications. In addition, the author has an original way of derailing conventional narratives with a compact, satiric prose and ripe perceptions. "I feel you're feeling anger," says the host to his enraged wife. It is one of Michaels' many punch lines in this small marvel of modern comic irony...
...Last week in our second episode, Separate Stables, we watched Charles, by now a ripe old 32, reach back into his past, and turn the girl-next-door into his Queen-to-be. The announcement of his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer, who was just 19, was greeted with sighs of editorial relief and good will throughout what was still rather wistfully recalled as the British Empire. Wars, assorted political crises and the irresistible flux of world events had buffeted Britain badly. The empire had not existed in fact for over 30 years. But it lingered in memory. The romance...
...existed, probably ruled in the 6th century; tales of his exploits developed, from oral history to moral imperative, over the next thousand years. No visual style could capture his moment with historical accuracy. What is needed-and what Boorman and Production Designer Anthony Pratt deliver -is a ripe and consistent graphic vision. Excalibur is the handsomest film since Terence Malick's Days of Heaven, and is as alive to the subtle textures of earth, water and sky. The land leans gracefully toward the horizon to embrace Camelot, a fairy castle in Eden. The sword that will give Arthur...
...Green is the obvious catalyst who precipitates suspended emotions and passions. The author wisely does not explain too much. She depends on a ripe, sometimes overripe, prose style to create atmospheres in which strange things are possible. The Caribbean, with its buried history of slave trade and uprisings, its lingering essense of negritude, is a good stage. Morrison attempts to evoke island life with touches of the magic realism that made Song of Solomon so successful. It does not quite work in Tar Baby. In fact, the strongest sense of place is conveyed in a scene set in New York...