Word: une
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Decadence (from the Latin decadere, "to fall down or away," hence decay) surely has something to do with death, with a communal taedium vitae; decadence is a collection of symptoms that might suggest a society exhausted and collapsing like a star as it degenerates toward the white dwarf stage, "une race à sa derniere heure," as a French critic said...
This text has the same importance for Post-Modernism as Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture, published in 1923, did for Modernism. It is, in other words, one of the hinges of recent architectural history. In tone, Venturi's manifesto was almost diffident: "Architects can no longer afford to be intimidated by the puritanically moral language of orthodox modern architecture. I like elements which are hybrid rather than 'pure,' compromising rather than 'clean,' distorted rather than 'straightforward,' ambiguous ... and equivocal rather than direct and clear. I am for messy vitality over obvious unity ... I am for richness of meaning rather...
...year-old Bell, one-time New Jersey campaign director for Ronald Reagan, rode the crest of the Proposition 13 wave to a stunning upset over veteran incumbent and popular liberal Clifford Case in une's Republican primary. Since that time, the polls have had the widely recognized liberal Democrat Bradley way ahead...
...UNE PARTIE DE PLAISIR. Claude Chabrol's devastating study of a common-law marriage breaking up, with particular attention paid to the problems of self-absorption and the childishness of the male ego. Psychologically shrewd, dramatically stunning, it is a masterful cautionary tale...
...Une Partie de Plaisir. Nothing pleasant here, but rather Claude Chabrol's story of two unwed partners who play around on the side, driving the male in this hip arrangement to show his true chauvanist, possessive, jealous and increasingly inhuman colors. We cautioned you about the cruel commentary on the new morality in Alpha-Beta last week, but at least the outcome of that romantic fiasco stayed pretty much up in the air. The wind-up here is far less ambiguous: this Mr. Machismo stomps his liberated and true love's face in with his bootheel. Subtle, Chabrol, subtle...