Word: wallowers
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...written are brilliant, but the demands imposed upon the actors are rigorous: they have to carry hundreds of invisible people--not to mention the people in the audience--along this roller coaster, and sustain it all until the climax. In this production, the actors keep losing grip. We wallow in monotony until a particular line catches us suddenly and throws our heads back as the ride starts again for a while...
Birmingham's past experience as a novelist and the author of such pop sociology as The Grandees and The Right People has given him biases that he has a hard time shaking. While as a fictioneer he likes to wallow in romance, as a social commentator he writes an analysis of Harvard club life which is the sort of hogwash upon which climbers thrive. But just because this isn't the sort of biography that will endear Marquand to posterity doesn't mean that it isn't entertaining...
Like the authors, most members of the audience at Manhattan's Eden Theater look like graduates of Rydell High School, class of 1959, where Grease is set, and they all wallow in the golden-oldies atmosphere. Laughter cascades over the footlights with every reference to "making out," exchanging school rings, going to proms in strapless dresses, stuffing Kleenex into bras and using fake ID cards to get into bars. But behind the laughter is bemusement. "They can identify with it all," says Casey, but he adds, "They are astonished that this is the past already...
...assume that an "advanced" civilization would be technological at all? Any superior intelligence would have long since outgrown the adolescent machine-freak stage we wallow in, and would have evolved to a new reacceptance of nature. Technology implies a Western psychology-aberrant enough when compared to the myriad other, better-adjusted cultures that have bloomed during man's hundred thousand years on this planet. It is audaciously chauvinistic to expect to find a duplicate neurosis in the depths of space. We are searching only for ourselves...
...times, the new film criticism seems to wallow in groundless theorizing. One succinct and complete definition of a Godardian-Marxist viewpoint was voiced by Jim Crawford '71 in his review of Sontag's Duet for Cannibals...