Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...philosophic conflict over the nature of man. In one view-long predominant and customarily summed up by Descartes' dictum, "I think, therefore I am"-thought and instinct are separate and man at his best is a rational animal. In the other view, often pilloried under the pejorative name Romanticism, thought and feeling are rightly and forever intermingled. Systems are to be avoided, individuality is stressed-which often made Romantics rebels against society. Man is naturally in tune with the divine in nature until he lets himself be corrupted away from his original innocence and natural virtue by organized society...
Across the Threshold. Legman's arguments are buttressed by an informed understanding of psychoanalytic theory and by a wide acquaintance with the classics. He makes a convincing case for the naked hostility hidden in most vulgarisms for the sex act. Two examples are the transparent sexuality of the most...
Instant Nose Job. White trappers, with their ingrained leaning toward monogamy and lingering romantic respect for womanhood, often made gentler husbands than Indian braves. Among the Blackfeet, for example, a woman caught in adultery by her Indian husband had to submit to an instant nose job, performed with a skinning...
Bunuel's own vision (apparent in the strange premature glimpse of the wheelchair and the ever-present emphasis on feet) draws us into the world of Severine's life and fantasies. Though Belle de Jour boggles the mind the first time around (audiences tend to dwell on peripheral ambiguities), the...
The Bride Wore Black is Truffaut's most calculated film, yet for all its style and detail, I'm not sure it amounts to very much, and prefer the romantic perception of Soft Skin, Truffaut's best film to date. But you have to give him points: the scenes between...