Word: touting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TOUT VA BIEN is the Sesame Street of political radicalism. It teaches its Marxism like the alphabet, a step at a time, no subtlety, no distractions. Godard assumes we know nothing and so tells us everything, lessons in the form of variety skits, the revolution as camp comedy...
That is not always easy to take, and at one point or another, Godard succumbs to his inevitable weaknesses: tedium, didacticism, political naivete. Still, I'm going to treat Godard sympathetically here. Not because Tout Va Bien is the masterpiece we were hoping for. But because Godard's concerns are real concerns, and because every so often it's useful to take experimentation as seriously as you possibly can, forgive its stupidities, assume that its wildest excesses are flights of genius...
...late '60s, many credulous small investors were advised by their hard-selling brokers to invest in Four Seasons Nursing Centers of America Inc. By owning part of a fast-growing proprietor of homes for the ailing aged, they could profit from a healthy young industry -or so the tout went. For a while, anyone who bought that advice had the prospect of a very comfortable nest egg indeed. Offered at $11 a share in 1968, Four Seasons soared to $181 (counting for a split). Then, a spectacular fizzle. The price shriveled to as low as 6¼? before...
...those eloquent stubborn men who lived alone and produced thousands of pages in a thin, crabbed hand. Words were so valuable, so freighted with nuance and intent, that aphorisms could be written which illustrated the world. Pascal, that ardent custodian of language, would have endorsed Mallarme's notion that "Tout, au monde, existe pour aboutir a un livre." Having discovered that all worldly activity could be dismissed as a diversion designed to evade the actual emptiness of life, he concluded that there was no real reason ever to leave one's room. Whatever there was to know could be read...
...prime supplier of Monday morning headlines. Americans got their first official word of the Russian atomic bomb from an inadvertent remark made by General Walter Bedell Smith on a 1949 program. Thomas E. Dewey used the show in 1950 to eliminate himself from the presidential race and to tout Dwight Eisenhower as the 1952 Republican nominee. John F. Kennedy made his debut on MTP in 1951 as a young, relatively obscure Congressman. "We were looking for fresh faces," Spivak recalls. "He was exactly right for the medium...