Word: wistfullness
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There is something wistful about the anachronism that in a time when agonizingly delicate international politics is played under a penumbra of nuclear megadeath, those of simple faith can still dream evangelical dreams of a simpler time, seeing themselves standing in the wind-washed prow of a Yankee clipper, Bible...
Best of all is Warren Gates as G.T.O. His face is familiar from a decade of playing honkies, hillbillies and the leading man's saddle buddy. The wide-ranging talent given expression only intermittently in those secondary roles is here used at full velocity and flat-out: he is...
To look at an image like Campbell's Soup Can, 1965, is not to see it through Warhol's eyes-he has eliminated all idiosyncrasies. There is no contagion of personality. What remains is the flat, mute face of an actuality presented as meaning nothing beyond itself. When...
Waist-deep in a pile of their own empties, 20th century technological men keep casting wistful second glances at "barbaric" societies that have lived harmoniously and respectfully with the earth. James Houston's particular over-the-shoulder look picks out an imagined Eskimo community at the moment of its...
The Manhattan hooker is no wistful Lili Marlene swinging a sad handbag under the street light. She is a feral and formidable bird of prey-as West Germany's ex-Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, 55, discovered at 2:30 one morning last week. Outside the Plaza Hotel just...