Word: toed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allen's private life is a taboo, reserved for the absent analyst, though the films are about him and intend us to imagine his complex 'interiority.' He's quite unable to imagine other people fully, as sufferers through the unspeakable Interiors will know. In Manhattan, though, he winningly has his...
The 90-pound weakling before, Yacowar magically transforms him into the beach bully of the art world. For some of us, precisely Woody Allen's redeeming feature is that he places himself on the 'before' side; he knows that it's good to be able to laugh at yourself, but...
'Thus in Bananas a coffin with a stereo attachment is intended for the California market; already Allen identifies the state with irrational pleasure and obliviousness to death.'
(in the planetarium in Manhattan) 'their inchoate love seems to be extravagantly literalized by the moon imagery.'
BUT IT'S distinctively Woody Allen's quality that he doesn't say these things; he limits himself to lighter moods. Conscious that his comedy doesn't do justice to the world around him, he won't permit himself to generalize. The airs of Yacowar's flimsy elevated prose exactly...