Word: tango
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jogs daily, packs golf clubs for his out-of-town trips and likes to open the fishing season, although he has had little time for the sport otherwise. He is a staunch civil libertarian, and while he would not think of going to see Deep Throat, or even Last Tango in Paris, he would never consider trying to shut them down either. Throat, in fact, has been playing for weeks...
...grain of the general consensus and pronounces something "bad" already determined by the others to be "good," he is not only panning a specific work but he is broadcasting the fact that his colleagues have been hoodwinked, taken in by a fraud. For instance, Pauline Kael raves about Tango in Paris six months before the movie hits the country. Everybody spends six hot months panting to see the eroticism that shall change the face of cinema. No movie could live up to such a snowball of projected fantasy. So when it finally arrives and the inevitable letdown is assured, scads...
...lost touch. They pigeonhole the headlines to fit their peace loving visions. McGovern or radical student revolt threatened the life styles they needed so badly, to protect--so they blocked the real issues from their field of vision. But they could like, hesitantly, over iced lemonade after tennis, Last Tango in Paris. They only like, you see, what lets them feel "with it" without asking them to change too much. They could watch the movie and never feel obliged to relate themselves to the vision that propelled it. The movie's convention (girl shoots lover when love becomes threatening) protected...
...Last Tango in Paris. "A movie that people will be arguing about as long as there are movies. Bertolucci and Brando have altered the face of an art form." Cheri...
...Last Tango in Paris. "A movie that people will be arguing about as long as there are movies. Bertolucci and Brando have altered the face of an art form." Cheri...