Word: wistfullness
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Any robust art form will often have its health called into question. Take English theater, for example. American visitors to London commonly discover that theater there flourishes as in no American city--and that newspaper reviewers are constantly issuing mournful prognoses and wistful elegies for some dim golden age. Conversely...
All this is to say that every work of popular art is political, and the good ones are more than that. Like this one. Pocahontas takes a while to get going, but when it does it becomes a wistful meditation on lost love in what it depicts as the last...
This has a good effect on Juan, whose long incarceration has, understandably, made him depressed and withdrawn. In his condition, as he slowly realizes, he doesn't need or want a simulacrum of his old life back; what he requires is an energizing new deal from a fresh pack. Oddly...
Today bring a wistful smile to my face.
AMID SO MUCH EVIDENCE to the contrary, one sign suggests that the U.S. is not totally dumbing down: the continuing popularity of John le Carre's novels. He has been making best-seller lists for more than 30 years-ever since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold revolutionized...