Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used for the Ken Kesey counter-culture novel that inspired One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. Big Nurse, Billy Bibbet, Randell McMurphy--zip, zam, zowee-am, swoosh, but with a heavy psycho-social punch packed behind it all. Yet the first shots of Milos Forman's movie--grainy, solemn, self-consciously non-colorful--make clear that this Cuckoo will not foist off a super-super allegory of a nut-fram, but a real Oregon mental hospital, in all its disturbing bleakness and isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except for a few "bigger than life" episodes that...
Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn -solemn as an ass. All the great monuments are built over solemn asses...
...buddy. Everywhere-in the bullfight arenas of Spain, on safari in Africa, at Toots Shor's celebrity saloon in Manhattan-she was audience to an endless cycle of war stories and constant repetitions of his philosophies and jokes, including such trying catch phrases as "truly" (spoken in a "solemn voice") and "how do you like it now, gentlemen...
Tunnel Vision. The Chinese seemed to be hoping that Schlesinger would be appointed to an important post in a Democratic Administration after the November election. When Schlesinger was received by Premier Hua Kuo-feng, Hua treated the meeting almost as a summit conference. A solemn-faced, tall (6 ft.) and commanding-looking man, Hua denounced the "new czars" in the Kremlin, arguing that the Soviets are continuing Russia's imperialist traditions. Reaching deep into the 18th century, the Premier warned that in Peter the Great's purported "testament" Russia had already laid claim to South Asia. Hua declared...
...film is blessedly funny, acute and, in a curious way, religious. But it is never solemn, even at serious moments, and never sentimental. Children are not soft on themselves, and neither is the director. Maybe the most astonishing accomplishment in Small Change is that Truffaut captures the full intensity of youth without ever getting giddy. He works from the heart without ever losing his head...