Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distant when whole populations will be living in "liberating cubes," which to me smacks of re-entry into the womb, and a sterile one at that. How sad that man has literally progressed himself back into a cavelike dwelling. Happily, plastic and light bulbs have replaced rock and sunlight-to the everlasting joy of gnomes, no doubt...
Djilas depicts everyday life on both sides: slender Turkish girls enveloped in soft shadows and sly glances, the insistent murmur of garden streams in the background: hearty Serbs bathed in the rich sunlight that pours copiously on gleaming mountains. But the book's cumulative power lies in appalling battle details. Heads sail briskly from necks and are hoisted on pikes. A Montenegrin grabs a Turk's horse and tries frantically to kick a severed leg out of the stirrup. During a lunch break between bashing feet and smashing kidneys, an unforgettable father-son torture team laments the passing...
...HOURS OF SUNLIGHT by Françoise Sagan. 185 pages. Harper...
Long after we leave, who will ever forget sitting on the verdent banks waiting for the crews to come into sight after the start, and always it's the Harvard oars reflecting sunlight that catch our eyes before all others. For it's the Cantabs who take the lead every time. And we cheer as they wisk by, the picture of precision, the ultimate in machinery hewned to a fine edge. A 707 jet in a field of piper cubs. You feel good knowing those men represent...
...this time around, Paris is again a jail: the movie opens with Antoine in a courtyard. We see him attempting through some chemical process to turn white carnations into blue, green and violet flowers- but there is little sunlight and only temporary success. When Antoine introduces electricity into his experiment the flowers blow up in his face (as, later on a bouquet of roses almost literally drops dead in his apartment). Antoine gives up and goes to work for an American hydraulic firm where everybody is mechanized to the point where even exchanges of affection have about as much spontaneity...