Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demands to include those things that are within reach and by exaggerating his successes-he claims credit for several actions that the Administration would probably have taken anyway-Abernathy has also left open the door to retreat. Thus the marchers can leave with some claim to victory, though, sad to say, it is mostly illusory...
...cotton fields. Before it got the name of soul, men were sellin' watermelons and vegetables on a wagon drawn by a mule, hollerin' 'watermellllon!' with a cry in their voices. And the men on the railroad track layin' crossties?every time they hit the hammer it was with a sad feelin', but with a beat. And the Baptist preacher?he the one who had the soul?he give out the meter, a long and short meter, and the old mothers of the church would reply. This musical thing has been here since America been here. This is trial-and-tribulation...
...levels. First, the narrative of the butcher's life in conventional chronology is matched to the action in reverse chronology (he tells about graduating from school into the world while the camera shows him emerging backwards from jail). There are also double meanings in reverse-order conversation ("Such sad-looking fish," says wife to lover. "You are too, my dear," says lover. "The weather is beautiful," says wife). Finally, Happy End has double meanings in reverse action; in his first meeting with his faithless wife, she jumps into his arms from a burning building, but he seems...
...eyewitness account of the scruffy San Francisco hippie subculture becomes all the more engrossing for the mingled feelings of anger, pain and horror that the entire experience caused her. Miss Didion suffers constantly, but compellingly and magically. With testiness, she reports on the vulgarity of Las Vegas weddings. With sad humor, she tells of a visit to Joan Baez's Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. With annoyance, she relates the legends surrounding Howard Hughes. With nostalgia, she describes a visit with John Wayne: how, as a round-eyed California schoolgirl, she yearned for some young man to promise...
Futz! is less likely to stir the senses than raise the gorge. Rochelle Owens' play is a sad saga of bestiality. Her preposterous moral is that people are beastlier than animals, particularly to a boy who prefers to make love to a sow. Cyrus Futz (John Bakos) loves Amanda, his sow, like a wife. A nympholeptic human pig gets jealous and goads the village rednecks into slaying the boy, preparatory to killing Amanda...