Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Virgin Queen. Forman was an abysmally credulous soul. "If I sneeze," he wrote, "once at the left nostril after sunset, it means an unknown person is coming; if twice at the right nostril be fore sunrise, it means a friend coming speedily for physic, or some sick body...
...landlady first discover the identity of her father is marvelously funny--marvelous because Truffaut doesn't allow this laughter to prejudice our reactions to Adele's passion when it is next presented. The film goes back and forth between the comfortable bourgeois life of Halifax and Adele's tormented soul, but the comparison is never invidious to either side. Truffaut takes neither easy way out--Adele is God's fool, and not a young girl on a puppy-love crush (she's 30); on the other hand, the sanity of the quotidian world is genuine and attractive...
...ends. Upstairs, Downstairs reflects a society in which masters and servants are bound to each other by shared and common memories. There is an intimacy, both abrasive and comforting, that precludes abandonment, despair and uncontrollable passions. Soap operas, on the other hand, are folk tales that tug at the soul of a nation of strangers for whom television itself is a bond. Tolstoy thought that unhappy families were unhappy in different ways. But a Madison Avenue philosopher, selling sex and suffering in the afternoon, remarks: "Show me an unhappy home and I'll show you a home that doesn...
...mother, Amanda, uses up all the oxygen in any room she enters. The crippled sister, Laura, is as fragile as her tiny glass animals, and the task of the artist-to-be, Tom, is to break out of this enmeshing spider web if he is to salvage his own soul...
...aide, chortled through his eggnog as he noted the PT-109 tie clasps (J.F.K.) and the L.B.J. cuff links still worn by those aging and jowly warriors of the New Frontier and Great Society. Ruddy and smiling John McLaughlin, the former Jesuit who defended the Nixon Administration's soul, rubbed elbows with presidential aides from other years, such as James Rowe (F.D.R.), Ben Wallenberg (L.B.J.) and Bob Amory...