Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strick's enormous success at translating the "interior monologue" into images defies, for the most part, any specific analysis of his method. He has simply exercised great perceptivity of the mind's movement--its means of wish-fulfillment fantasizing, its rhythms. But one aspect of his method that can be identified is his use of close-ups. Objects inherently grotesque, though subdued by their everyday contexts, often fill his Panavision screen: fishguts on a butcher's block, kidneys plopping into a cat's dish. The viewer perceives that what might have been a "shock image" in Polanski or Hitchcock...
...Jesus, I wish I were stoned, one necktie lamented. But it wasn't hardly necessary
...naturalized American citizen and a New York resident for 20 years, I wish to congratulate you calorosamente for your benign, brassy, bothering, blatant, beautiful and very belated cover story [April 21] on my always beloved Brazil...
...elimination of social injustice depends not only on federal action but on state action, local action, and especially private, personal action. All four are needed. Overreliance on individual action clearly is mistaken. But overreliance on federal action is also mistaken. It can provide an excuse for those who wish to avoid needed state, local, personal and private action...
...Juvenal-Lowell on Rome and Lowell on New York, for example. Consider the lines "Behind each bush perhaps a knife" ("Central Park") and "If you take a walk at night/ carry a little silver, be prepared/ to think each shadow hides a knife or spar" ("The Vanity of Human Wishes"). The more significant parallels with Juvenal, however, lie in the Maine poems, where the wish "to break loose" is in profound tension with the wish to return to "when the universe was young" (if one takes the context of breaking loose as implying movement into the future...