Word: thrall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Modigliani is a portrait of the artist as a Montparnasse bum, or rather three: Modigliani's companions are his fellow painters and fellow flops-as the 1916 taste makers viewed them-Maurice Utrillo and Chaim Soutine. Utrillo (Ethan Phillips) is in thrall to two false gods, alcohol and his mother. Soutine (George Gerdes) is a color addict equally intoxicated by the stains on a butcher's apron and the veins of a plucked chicken. Led by Modigliani (Jeffrey de Munn), these Three Musketeers of the Night smash up cheap restaurants, cadge drinks, slash their canvases in frustrated rage...
DeLorean's kiss-and-tell story of GM in the '60s and '70s depicts senior GM executives as men hemmed in by tradition, swamped in paper work, and totally in thrall to their company careers...
Ever since the collapse of the Sino-Soviet alliance 18 years ago, a specter has haunted the U.S.S.R.: China's military might. While Poet Yevtushenko depicts Chinese soldiers as descendants of Genghis Khan's Mongol horde, which held Russia in thrall for three centuries, the Soviet press, radio and television more commonly compare the People's Liberation Army to Hitler's invading Wehrmacht in World War II. A film frequently screened on Soviet television showed Chinese officers shouting frenzied battle cries, while fanatic soldiers performed such smashing kung-fu stunts as breaking bricks with their fists...
Since Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, his Alice has stolen more hearts than the Knave did tarts. No more ardent Wonderlander exists than California Pianist and Composer David Del Tredici, 41, who has been in thrall to the book's "effortless whimsy" ever since, at age eleven, he sang the role of the White Rabbit in a school musical based on Alice. He has spent the past decade composing a series of works based on various Alice adventures. When several new orchestral works were commissioned for the U.S. Bicentennial, Del Tredici was ready...
Author Jean Kerr emerged as a popular humorist in the late 1950s, when the U.S. was in thrall to togetherness, Doris Day's celluloid virginity and the beckoning greensward of suburbia. Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) and two later collections of essays treated these and other national preoccupations comically but gently. She did not topple idols but admired them from a safe distance. Her pose was that of the indefatigable but bumbling striver, chirping away about her supposed inability to stage a dinner party, cope with preternaturally wisecracking children or conform to the feminine image conveyed...