Word: wallows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the U.S. and continental Europe began their economic upturns, Britain continued for months to wallow in the trough of recession. In fact, other countries feared that Britain's economic woes-notably, a galloping inflation and a weakening pound-might trigger a new international economic crisis. But as the new year began, it was evident that Britain, though still lagging behind other nations, has firmly entered the recovery stage. The three major signs...
...York art world, especially in its present decay, is the easiest target a pop sociologist could ask for. Most of it is a wallow of egotism, social climbing and power brokerage, and the only thing that makes it tolerable is the occasional reward of experiencing a good work of art in all its richness, complexity and difficulty. Take the art from the art world, as Wolfe does, and the matrix becomes fit for caricature. Since Wolfe is unable to show any intelligent response to painting, caricature is what we get: a rehashed conspiracy theory...
...other four writers, Theodore White, author of The Making of many Presidents, including Nixon, is the only one to offer a total read for anyone who wants to wallow in Watergate. He skillfully retells the whole story of the President's fall, even dealing with his character as a rootless outsider who bitterly resented social slights offered him by men like Eisenhower and Rockefeller. Most important, White's book includes an absorbing day-by-day account, based on personal interviews, of what the President and the men around him-especially General Alexander Haig and Lawyers Leonard Garment...
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...