Word: showings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...described rap music as the "repetition of the minstrel show." What do you mean by that? Look at it yourself. Put on a video. If you look at it, you can tell me what it means...
...dialogue becomes grating, however, when the film’s characters stop following normal conversation patterns, and instead begin to communicate with speeches that sound like contrived publicity blurbs for art shows. “Your work pushes the boundaries of modern thought, thrusting past the limitations of human emotion and cognition to create the ultimate expression of human consciousness,” Madeleine enthuses to an artist during a show. These kinds of inflated, preposterous mini-monologues quickly grow tiresome, and instead of humorously mocking the bourgeoisie art world, they come across as simply an irksome staple...
...depiction of an advertising agency in the early 1960s as a mirror of present times. Praise be to that firey avatar of all things good, St. Joan Holloway, however, that the recent season finale made the more direct of these comparisons seem misguided, irrelevant. Far from a show focused solely on capturing the essence of another time, or even our own time, the season finale of “Mad Men” made it clear that the show aims to remind viewers of the potential for creativity and forward-thinking to fundamentally change our lives in America...
...anything, the best lesson to date that can be drawn from the show is the one manifested in the remarkable pluck and ingenuity of the Draper himself. Faced with the decision to continue on blindly, and unhappily, as a piece in a nebulous mechanism he has no control over, our man refuses to resign himself to the station of a corporate whore (as his mother was, and as he views his soon-to-be ex-wife Betty to be). I, and certainly many fans, expected this finale to be a doomsday episode–the death of a character seemed...
...understand why he shouldn't produce a birth certificate. My God, you're talking about the third rail of American journalism, baby! That's it. I'm not going to back off." - Speaking on his television show, July...