Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news to anyone anywhere that war is bloody and cruel. What saves Lester's movie from banality is its dazzlingly surrealistic approach and moments of explosively funny comedy-notably, a court-martial scene in the desert that rivals the Red Queen's interrogation of Alice for sheer illogic. In a generally first-rate cast, Jack MacGowran is outstanding as a mad soldier who could have stepped from the plays of Beckett, while Crawford, as the silly subaltern, alternates hilariously between villainy and vanity. Despite its pictorial audacity and quirky humor, the picture is less impressive as a film...
There was once a time when songs sold in single 45's...when teenage idols sang of schoolroomsandmalt shops... A time when... asks the audience almost disinterestedly. "Are you ready on the left?" He looks up and growls into an overhanging red spotlight, "Get ready for 45 minutes of sheer rrrrrock...
...would gainsay William F. Buckley Jr., entertainer, court jester of conservatism. His regrettable ineffectualness as socio-political philosopher-activist is traceable and proportionate to an unconcealed intellectual narcism. Buckley's a mental muscle-beacher who can't resist rippling his grey matter to dazzle bystanders. For sheer sophistic jabberwocky and an excruciating reciprocity of cleverness Buckley's ideal Firing Line partner would be Marshall McLuhan. But stack him against self-educated Dockhand Eric Hoffer, the man of passionately simple convictions, and Buckley would do a fast fade from brilliance. Because he evinces about as much commitment...
...bankrupt an advocate," says Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. To M.I.T. Political Science Professor Lincoln P. Bloomfield, "he is an exceedingly witty, attractive and rather insidious spokesman for a point of view for which I have few sympathies. But if we don't want to die of sheer boredom, the Buckleys should be encouraged." Buckley offers his own well-considered self-analysis: "I feel I qualify spiritually and philosophically as a conservative, but temperamentally I am not of the breed...
...somewhat earthbound readings of the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger and Copland's recently revised Canticle of Freedom. The evening's climax-Beethoven's formidable Ninth ("Choral") Symphony-was a feat of musical levitation. The intelligence and spirit of the interpretation, along with the sheer force and clarity of Shaw's baton, lifted the performance above its own technical flaws-some faulty string playing, moments of rhythmic dislocation-to provide music that frequently soared with an exhilarating sense of freedom...