Word: transcendentalism
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There is a wonderful movie fighting to get out of this $50 million musical. Unfortunately for Producer Ray Stark, the movie is Camille, that transcendent Garbo weepie, which Daddy Warbucks takes his button-eyed orphan to see at a Radio City Music Hall advance screening. (Quite a bit in advance...
But Schell goes much further than simply endorsing a nuclear freeze or urging a return to serious arms control. He regards such remedies as little more than aspirins administered to a patient with a life-threatening illness. In his view, the very existence of nuclear weapons carries with it the...
Last year Jane Martin (a pen name shielding a woman who refuses to reveal her identity) made her unforgettable debut as a monologuist with Twirlers, in which the heroine likens champion baton wielding to a transcendent experience ("Twirling is the throwing of yourself up to God"). Lisa Goodman repeats her...
But the producers are seldom content to let hell enough alone. Vocal references to rape are accompanied by screams and wails; at the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony-a wartime symbol for victory-the screen fills with hundreds of Morse code Vs, dots and dashes rendered in...
The idea that such a transcendent being might have had a context would have been anathema to the baroness, but her collection became the core of the Guggenheim Museum. Meanwhile, the blazing torch of devotion has turned into a curatorial flashlight, poking abruptly here and there amid the somewhat musty...