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Badlands. The basic ambiguity in this 1974 fictionalization of the Stark weather murders of the fifties is whether the director did it on purpose. Either way we lose. If the film is serious, it is a tasteless romanticization of mass murder as teenage alienation in the silent 50's: if it's not, the film can only be taken as a coy parody of James Dean which has nothing to offer beyond its original kitchy conception...
...course. Does anyone still believe that the hippies and gurus and Woodstocks of the '60s were anything new or unusual? Consider the medieval Pied Piper from Bourges, who called himself Christ and gathered an ecstatic following that then presented itself to the Bishop of Le Puy, its members "stark naked, leaping and somersaulting." The response was summary: the leader was "killed on the spot...
...hurricane of 1938 was such a storm, as this narrative proves-stark and immediate almost 40 years later...
...novel to take seriously, to read any other way than curled up in bed late in the night, never looking away from the pages until the last savory morsel has been devoured. But toward the end of the meal, as depression threatens to dampen the reader's enthusiasm, the stark reality behind the lascivious, B-rated fluff emerges...
Bayreuth has known-and absorbed-protest before, notably in the early '50s when Wagner's grandson Wieland introduced the stark, abstract productions that have remained influential ever since. Wieland's brother and successor, Wolfgang, knows his conservative local constituency very well-he staged an undistinguished Ring cycle of his own in 1971-but for the big five-week-long birthday he went out to hire men who would shake things up the way they must be shaken periodically if an opera house is to command international attention...