Word: uplifter
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...smog-hazed sunsets, no bronzed California girls in hiphugger jeans, no West Coast crazies. In their place, we only have genuine human beings grappling as best they can with the unkind vicissitudes of life and the darker side of the human condition. The film may not necessarily uplift, but it will stimulate and cause you to reflect about the characters' lives and your very own existence. Rudolph has clearly taken his work and himself very seriously; his characters, themes and Los Angeles have all gotten a fair shake, and so will the viewer...
Best actress went to Faye Dunaway as the bitchy-pushy programming V.P. in Network; her loony anchorman co-star Peter Finch, who died last January, was named Best Actor. Rocky, Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone's uplift tale about the little-known heavyweight who could, won Best Picture...
Daring Calligraphy. Mine's work was not all indictment. It had its celebratory side as well, and this came to the fore in the 1920s. It took the form of a series of dramatically affirmative "work portraits," designed, as Hine un abashedly put it, for "social uplift," such as Powerhouse Mechanic, 1925. He hit the peak of this imagery in 1930, when he began to document that marvel of audacity and skill, the construction of the Empire State Building. As Trachtenberg remarks, Hine's Empire State series, with its daring calligraphy of girders and Icarian figures treading...
Along with platitudes, Marabel preaches a message of uplift and liberation that might be expected to satisfy (but does not) even her fiercest critics. "Poise and self-confidence are available to any woman," she writes. "Discover who you really are and where you are going. Develop your own convictions. Have the courage to live by your standards. Enjoy your unique spot in the world." Right on, Marabel...
...fact, only one team is scheduled to play--the Harvard fencing team, which will be dueling away at the International Fencing Association championships at Columbia University. (I wouldn't even write this except that I know how many of you rely on my column to give you that added uplift on Thursday...