Word: wallower
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...primary importance. There's a great deal of sensationalism in that now, while the interaction of the black man and the black woman has not been explored at all and needs to be." In the meantime, the series will, as in the Dec. 24 episode, wallow in lesser issues like Corey's argument with a neighbor boy about whether or not Santa Claus is white. Title of the segment: "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas...
...City's population shrank to a minimum estimate of only 500. Violence was rising, vituperative militance was alienating liberals, who are Abernathy's only real source of mainstream support, and the pretender to the role of Martin Luther King was letting the Poor People's Campaign wallow into disorder, disintegration and self-defeat...
...world cinema. The prime mover in Demy's light-struck multi-color Disneyland is coincidence, a capricious often fascinating quality, granted, but not one of your big themes--hardly an equivalent to Resnais's concern with time or Lang's with fate. Demy's constructs lack true vision, instead wallow joyously in the mechanical: lovers wander marionette-like (often singing) looking for their true loves, forced by Demy to miss one another by seconds until the romantic pay-off at the finale...
...teach-in. (How the dissemination of opinions differs from the dissemination of information is left unexplained, unless one assumes that the teach-in was totally devoid of any information whatsoever.) The renunciation of social obligation is the same; the harm wreaked is infinitely worse. Value freedom allows one to wallow in the mud without feeling soiled...
...nothing to do with the art of fiction. In its brief compass (long enough to irritate, short enough to finish between lunch and cocktails), the novel lambastes modern life, love, marriage and values with thoroughgoing cynicism. It is bound to have an insidious appeal: it can make a woman wallow in self-pity. The scene is a Paris rapidly becoming Americanized. The heroine is Laurence, the ultramodern career woman (advertising, of course) with a successful architect husband, two sweet little girls, and a lover always on tap (chap who works in her office). She is suffocating...