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...Beacon Hill he gives them quite a thrill...
With that revision of a famous dictum, London Times Pundit Bernard Levin summed up the mood of Britain last week.* On the Monday morning after the Common Market referendum, when the edge was off the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat as well, Britons were reawakened to the fact that all of their old problems were still with them. Indeed, some had got worse...
...certainly not a youth picture, and it hardly seems the sort of thing that would induce Mom and Dad to spring for a sitter and a night on the town. Maybe the producers were trying to crash the senior-citizens market, give the old folks a thrill and a little grue some encouragement against the insults of aging. A notion like that conjures up entertaining visions of audiences full...
...examination of a phenomenon that still existed. Stavisky is nostalgia for two things--first, for the eternal appeal of the rogue, the high-energy, affable cheap who spends more money than he screws out of other people; second, for the miasma of the thirties, the thrill of the moment when you can no longer be sure that the roller coaster you're on is going to carry you up again, and you just lay back and abandon yourself to the pleasures of a swift rocketing downwards...
...time art scene is made up of only a few thousand people--artists, wealthy collectors and critics--then the people who write about it, the high priests of culture, can have an enormous impact. What people are getting out of art is not enjoyment of art but the thrill of being where the intellectual and cultural avant-garde is. The whole scene has built upon itself, because it depends on change and even more on the deliberate strangeness of the art--only the truly enlightened can appreciate it. No philistine would ever buy an Ad Reinhardt painting...