Word: shamelessness
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Sound familiar? There are suggestions of Brunnhilde's dilemma here, and certainly Lohengrin's. These similarities would not much matter if the music had independent life. Instead, the score is a shameless pastiche, something that Erich Korngold, the peerless artificer of movie music, would have deeply appreciated. Wagner (including an outright steal of Tristan's theme for Roland), Meyerbeer, Offenbach, all emerge from the pit. The vocal music is lifted mostly from Berlioz, who wrote wonderfully sensuous love duets. The pity is that in Manon, Massenet created an ineffable erotic style...
...that Schmidt had "lost control 50 of himself." In a final campaign bout last week, Schmidt and Kohl traded invectives during a four-hour television debate which consisted largely of mudslinging. "Your actions cannot be those of a normal being," growled Kohl. "What you're saying is total, shameless falsehood, which doesn't surprise me," fumed Schmidt...
...modern-day Naziism--of toeing the corporate line in silence. He is also willing to equate his situation to that of other historical figures. In his letter requesting a formal hearing, Brown-Beasley wrote: "Your 'investigation,' gentlemen, was not a search for truth at all, but rather a shameless 'cover-up.' It will go down in the annals of illegality together with the 'investigations' associated with the irregular court-martial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in France, and the (mis-) trials of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Massachusetts, against the injustice of which latter infamy Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter...
...homosexuality were limited by the cultural context. Thus when the Law of Moses states, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination," McNeill treats this as a protest against use of homosexuality in pagan rites. When St. Paul fulminates against "men committing shameless acts with men," McNeill reads it as opposition only to homosexual activity by people who are naturally heterosexual. The ambiguous story in Genesis 19, he says, means that Sodom was destroyed not for practicing sodomy but for its "inhospitality" to strangers...
Parker recreates old movie clichés with shameless abandon: a car chase is routed through a barn, from which the autos emerge covered with straw and squawking hens. Fat Sam's speakeasy has a janitor (played by a winning, wistful Albin Jenkins) who mops floors and dreams of being a tap dancer. Parker reproduces, in the character of Blousey. the goody-goody bitchiness that made the "nice girls" of gangster flicks such eminent candidates for strangulation. The hoofing is exuberant and surprisingly adept, even if Paul Williams' musical score is a little slick. The whole movie...