Word: vertigo
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This is the progress of romance in the past 40 years: one starts out loving an idealized image of a mate (see Vertigo) and winds up loving oneself (see Seinfeld...
...fact see Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, since it is being rereleased in a new, clean print in eight cities. There are several scary scenes in the movie, but none as terrifying as when Kim Novak presents her remade self to Jimmy Stewart. She is dressed in a gray suit and a white blouse, and her hair is done up in a seascape of blond waves. Stewart has wholly recreated her in the image of the dead woman he loved. Only, as the plot twists, and though Stewart does not yet know it, this is the dead woman he loved...
...future, and it sucks. In this teeming hellhole (lots of clatter and clutter), madmen get the best lines, and a heroic time traveler hardly stands a chance. Intent on both dazzling and punishing the viewer, Gilliam gets lost in creepy spectacle and plenty of old film clips (notably Vertigo). But at the sight of three giraffes crossing a city bridge, you'll think of a more recent movie. A bad one. In its frantic mix of chaos, carnage and zoo animals, 12 Monkeys is Jumanji for adults...
...joys of Doom. I sampled the original two years ago, of course, shortly after it spread across the Internet. But the truth is, Doom made me sick. Not the blood and guts of it--Doom is no gorier than, say, a Sam Peckinpah movie. What nauseated me was the vertigo that came from peering over a gun barrel while twisting down narrow corridors...
...most obvious and traditional measures, America is doing well. Unemployment is the lowest in five years, the economy is growing, and crime has eased somewhat. But underneath that surface is the accumulated wreckage of political paralysis, endemic violence, disintegrating families, two decades of wage stagnation and cultural vertigo. Marc Miringoff, director of Fordham University's Institute for Innovation in Social Policy, maintains an index of social health that factors in 16 social problems ranging from child abuse to the number of Americans on food stamps. In 1970, the index's first year, it stood at 73.8 out of a utopian...