Word: whoops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nonetheless. He was the answer to their prayers, after all; the essential reason for the elegant, confident glow of the evening. Editor William F. Buckley Jr. would shine quietly, modestly. Others, like Publisher William Rusher, would exhort the assembled "to stamp out any remaining embers of liberalism." A war whoop was in the air?black tie, to be sure?but still the unmistakable sound of a faction reprieved, at last in power, thanks to the boyish man at the other end of the country, whose time had definitely come...
...MORE IMPORTANT strain of military-minded popular music has cowered passively before the prospect of world war, not promoted it with a whoop and a shout. New wave music, with its hypnotic repetition, machine noises and nihilism, had always rejected a rosy view of the future in favor of visions of chaos and destruction. But "Life During Wartime," the Talking Heads' 1979 hit, was the first indication that New Wave music dealing in the particulars of war not only could be popular, but seemed to satisfy some collective hunger of the public imagination...
...fact that Washington is a company town mean that the company itself is lifeless. When a big political event breaks in Washington, there is nothing like it. Those same reporters who sometimes make too much of too little also know a real story when they see one. They whoop it up like prospectors, and the city shines with news. The point is that Washington is very much whatever the rest of the country wants it to be, and if it has turned out to be not quite perfect, it is largely because some old ideas soured, or outlived their time...
...without a past trying to survive in a house-of-mirrors world ruled by a manic, eloquent, grandly eccentric genius, a kind of prankish, omnipotent deity. But this is not enough for Rush. In its jumbled hyperactive way The Stunt Man is part corny romantic comedy, part whoop-it-up action exploitation flick, and high-brow, somewhat pretentious anti-war statement (circa Vietnam) and quickie-metaphysical study of Paranoia, Art, and the old Illusion/Reality enigma. The Stunt Man's got it all, even those big, capitalized questions of Significance, which flutter like damp fortune-cookie slogans blowing around...
...show at City Plaza, and its dimensions haven't been properly scaled down. Some carefully planned comic routines fail to connect because of gestures that are too large, movements too exaggerated, timing off. When Rosalind decides to flee the court with her confidante, the women give a victory whoop that flies into the air and then falls with a clunk on the stage...