Word: spectacleâ
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...John McCain has never been about details. He has always been about a gladiatorial spectacle???the honest man in the arena, taking questions from all comers with good humor, demonstrating his courage by the way he campaigns. There is something quite exhilarating about watching him strut his stuff. His utter independence is bracing, and his willingness to say "I don't know" is honest, often to a fault. You could almost sense his audiences arguing with themselves at his town meetings: "What a great American! ... But does he really think Washington politicians are going to stop pork-barrel spending...
Super Bowl. It is the Great American Time Out, a three-hour pause on a Sunday afternoon in January that is?as sheer, unadorned spectacle???an interval unique. For 70 million Americans, life compresses to the diagonally measured size of a cathode ray tube. Work goes undone, play ceases too; telephones stop ringing, crime disappears, romance is delayed and, in all the land, there is just one traffic jam worthy of the title?on highways leading to the Super Bowl site. If it is not literally McLuhan's global village, the Super Bowl certainly is the national town...
Mankiewicz constantly wrote around Elizabeth Taylor, although she is supposed to be the picture's heroine. The early hours of the film also seem to give rather heavy emphasis to spectacle???everything from a 2 2-ton rolling sphinx to an acre of skin, dancing. Mark Antony is essentially absent until after the intermission, but then the level of the writing rises. The dialogue
Music Box Revue. Another gorgeous spectacle???another moving curtain, this time a mermaid-one?much color?much beauty?only occasional lapses in taste?Grace Moore's voice ?Florence O'Denishawn's dancing? Frank Tinney?Josephy Santley? John Steel?Florence Moore. And this time, praises be, a revue with at least three uproariously funny interjections: R. C. Benchley's inimitable reading of the treasurer's report; a skit entitled If Men Played Cards as Women Do; an operatic rendering of Yess, We Have No Bananas! In many ways easily the best of all the revues...
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