Word: voguish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...selection of Kawabata, an author little known to Western readers, surprised those expecting the choice of more voguish Western writers such as Gunter Grass or Andre Malraux...
...joke to excess. The rest of Elliott Baker's screenplay, adapted from his own 1964 novel and filmed with careful fidelity on the seedy side of Manhattan, is a fitfully funny satire based on a portrait of the artist as the natural enemy of all Establishment norms. This voguish half-truth worked well enough in book form, where nearly every character was a well-managed mass of lunatic impulses. In the movie, everyone seems to be racing against the threat of imminent condensation. Director Kershner pounces upon an idea without developing it, and his commendable desire...
...baloney," grumped Holifield. "You try to talk to them and they just repeat what they've been told." With demonstrations and proclamations-and also with moderate voices and measured argument-students across the nation are astir with a new enthusiasm, and in the process the anemic boredom voguish in the '50s has disappeared...