Word: zeitgeist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editing--is so self-propelled that nothing but action or obligatory dialogue becomes an integral part of the story. John Barry's production design and Russell Hagg's art direction drop sexual decorations and phallic sculptures in the midst of sterile modern architecture: a vain attempt to indict a Zeitgeist through innuendo. The gracelessness of the photography, however, is perhaps the most telling aspect of Mr. Kubrick's growing arrogance as a director. In vain, we wait for some formal structures to emerge from the succession of images, as they did in 2001 (or as everyone thought they...
...current wave of nostalgia with a re-creation of old Holly wood times. Pint-sized Mickey Rooney and gravel-larynxed Lionel Stander are playing a couple of gangsters, and four Maltese cats are masquerading as Mae West, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich. But what really catches the Zeitgeist of those crazy days is the bit where Rooney gets shot and Stander does a backward somersault into the pool to surface in the middle of a floating...
...notion of personal destiny. A person who had had a less sophisticated philosophical exposure might have couched this notion into convinced mutterings about the will of God or the whims of Lady Luck-7, 11, or the Second Coming. King, however, spoke of being tracked down by the Zeitgeist, and his diction was a part of his appeal to the white media. His rhetoric, "the soft Georgia cadence" of his voice, and the non-violence of his actions were the stuff of which television specials are made. Entertaining without being threatening...
...television specials? King, whose conception of success before Montgomery was that of the insular notoriety of the well-respected minister of a silk-stocking church, discerned within the Zeitgeist the possibility of transcending this notion of success. This idea of becoming a national figure must have played with increasing regularity in King's mind as his press coverage and that of the boycott increased. Having been reared in an environment in which one's social position was, in part, evaluated by the number of one's citations on the society page of the Atlanta Daily World. King was sufficiently media...
...mendacious assumptions about the nature of America, King had not yet perceived the motivation that had caused this support to be accorded him, nor the conditions under which it was given. Instead, he regarded it as a spontaneous outpouring of moral sentiment, dictated by the Zeitgeist. His forensic imagery revolved around the vision of butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, bankers and welfare mothers forming an ecstatic muster and marching like faceless Johnnies to a nonviolent holy war for justice, dignity and the dream. In this vision, which was the underpinning of his famous "A Preacher Leading His Flock" speech given exactly...