Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg
When Farmer haggles with the studio heavy to buy the rights to his film, and convinces his wife to star in it and change her image to that of a sex goddess, the film is at its best. Edwards' attacks on the twisted values of Hollywood come like a whirlwind, as Farmer pleads, orates, struts, gesticulates, and throws his body to strike a deal. Farmer does buy the film, but for all his assets, and he returns home to find his enraged wife ready to kill him. This is no Mary Poppins. Furious that her husband has sunk...
...critics have argued that what the burst of creativity achieved was instant decadence. They see in the primitive purity of Ub Iwerks, Disney's first great collaborator and the man who designed the immortal Mouse, a whirlwind comic force, simple and unsentimental, that for high, mean spirits was never matched. It is true that in Iwerks' rubbery stick figures and bare backgrounds there was an elemental anarchy that is still delightful. But one has only to look at Norm Ferguson's roughs for Playful Pluto, in which he caused his pup to be caught in flypaper...
Within the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg
That haunting passage is from Journey into the Whirlwind, the first volume of Ginzburg's memoirs, published in the U.S. in 1967. There, she began recounting the 18 years she spent in the Gulag, mostly in the Arctic death camps of Kolyma. In this, the second volume, Ginzburg, who died in 1977, picked up her story about "the gradual transformation of a naive young Communist idealist into someone who had tasted unforgettably the fruits of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...