Word: sober
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letdown; every junction is the vehicle of his meticulousness, proclaiming that a millimeter's change in the thickness of a mullion flange would read as a loss. The ground-floor film and lecture theater, with its black seats and dark teak rear wall, is a jewel of sober, lucid design. But on the large scale, all this is lost. Apart from the Houston Astrodome, one could barely imagine a less sympathetic space for showing art than Mies' vast curving hall, longer than a football field and 22 ft. high. "It's like trying to make the rotunda...
...important seems to have been said, the lives of the talkers change course. The Senator in his private office is busy phrasing an announcement to the press that he and his wife have separated. With his aide, not incidentally a woman, he searches for a wording that sounds statesmanlike, sober, and does not suggest loose living or the suicidal word divorce. He is a pro, and so is his aide, and they produce a satisfactory announcement on the third try. He okays it and then says lightly that he never really wanted to be Vice President anyway. Overtones resound; both...
...spoke of them in the same terms as the families who saved their money and did live for the future. But their actions implied that they no longer believed in their dreams. They drank hard, they lived for the present, and so they posed a threat to their conservative, sober, church-going neighbors who believed that people could rise in the system by saving, by living stable lives, by waiting for the big break that would inevitably come...
...effectively brutal scene of a mass mob assassination. The Mafiosi, portrayed with almost parodistic seriousness by the likes of Martin Balsam and Alfred Ryder, hire Viet Nam veterans to do their dirty work, a bit of practicality that also passes for covert social comment. The Stone Killer concludes in sober fashion with a sermon on evil, which, we are told, is pervasive and unavoidable. Rather like Charles Branson-Michael Winner movies, apparently...
American Graffiti is not a soft soap film like its nostalgia predecessors. The end of the film, which is a mite too fanciful (with the college bound boy flying away on "Magic Carpet Airways"), is sober if not sobering. Everybody does not get his girl. But everyone does make his decision. One way or another, for one reason or another, the boys have taken their cards and Lucas will force each one to play them...