Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SWEET MOVIE...
...Sweet Movie was shown two years ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then it has acquired a justifiably vile reputation. A sort of live-action animated cartoon, the movie is a paean to the joys of insanity. Should there be any mistaking this intent, Director Dusan Makavejev (who made another Reichian parable, WR-Mysteries of the Organism) includes a little ditty with the refrain, "It's a joy to be crazy/ Good to be sad.../ Good to practice deadly sin/ To be alive and to win." Irony, if intended, is imperceptible...
...Harvard has beaten Dartmouth for the second year in a row, and how sweet that...
...gets tough to take after a while. Always the machine. The Dolphins, the Celtics and now the Reds. That's why it's so sweet to see Ali knock Foreman silly and to see Jimmy Connors vollied into the ground and the Mets win the series...
...those footballs is now in a museum. The state of mind is gone forever. The sweet, class-bound innocence of such gestures now seems more distant than the moon, and madder than any war story in Pynchon or Heller...