Word: wallowers
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Hence the cinema of the extreme, with visual effects and emotions so exaggerated that sheer volume is all that counts. Destroy Los Angeles; film a twelve-year-old girl masturbating with a crucifix: wallow in solitary confinement with Steve McQueen on Devil's Island--ten million dollar's worth of a dark screen. a few cockroaches, and no talking. I remember last summer, caught in a miserable little movie called The Terminal Man (from Michael Crichton, with George Segal), finding myself watching the Man (who has an alien machine brain lobotomized into his skull so that his actions are uncontrollable...
...Stavisky--even after he has either committed suicide or been shot by a government anxious to have his secrets dies with him, he is laid out in a statuesque repose that is not dismaying. The unrelenting beauty of the film gives it almost all of its impact, you can wallow in it and you can hardly escape seduction to at least that extent. Everything is painted in pastel; Deauville and Biarritz; corks popping out of magnums of Moet & Chandon; Rolls-Royces and Hispano-Suizas; tuxedoes and boutonniere roses; country houses with immaculate lawns; Alps, pale sandstone rocks beneath pale aquamarine...
Though western wonders often wallow when warring with the weevil of eastern ice, Crimson wigglers Peter Anton and Bob Kelly have whetted the whim of coach Carter with wit and little wobble while wrestling with the rinks, wishfully called slopes. With work the pair will leave watchers wonderous with their winter winging...
Where has all the glory gone? New York Yankee fans have been asking that question for a decade as they watched the team that once dominated baseball wallow in mediocrity. Now some rescuers are on hand. Earlier this winter the Yankees acquired Bobby Bonds, potentially a superstar outfielder, from the San Francisco Giants in exchange for the steady Bobby Murcer. Last week in an even more dramatic-and promising -move, the team signed Pitcher Jim ("Catfish") Hunter, the self-liberated ace of the world champion Oakland A's. This time the price was not a player but a fortune...
Till people fairly wallow in the peace (Which radiates, like teargas, through...