Word: viscera
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People of the squeamish persuasion are a beleaguered lot these days. Their views are anything but chic, and their sensibilities are battered about like straw men each time a new entertainment hurls ever more graphic violence ("Not for the squeamish!") at the public eye and viscera. Perhaps squeamishness lacks defenders because sneering at it is both fashionable and surefire box office...
...expresses it as a universal eternity. While analysing a picture's content allows the intellectual and the artist to compare notes, there comes a point when you have to accept an artist on his own terms. That is, if an artist's work eludes your mind but smacks your viscera, well, then maybe it's time to hang up the old cerebral touchstone...
...funky Laurel Canyon cottage. It was a time of unrest on campuses and growing resistance to Viet Nam. Musically, the canyon was an exciting place to be. Los Angeles bands like the Byrds and the Buffalo Springfield played a softer music crafted for the ear instead of the viscera. A new generation was "getting it together," and Joni Mitchell wrote its anthem, Woodstock...
...movie churns the viscera more than it should, forcing its jittery nerves into contact with whatever we're most on end about ourselves. A look at the published screenplay makes it harder to see why this should be. The book's dialogue is filled with petty details that never add up to reasons to act, terrors are pointed out in the stage directions, but except when Johan first leaves Marianne the passions are too strong for what's happening. The screenplay seems just good enough to make small, slippery claims on the audience's emotion; of course, it does much...
However, an individual should not make the mistake of taking on the problems of the world, Slater said. He should "pay attention to his own viscera...