Word: steiner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence that the U.S.'s appetite for culture is ravenous. But there may be another side to the record: the preoccupation with sound may really mean that the U.S. is growing increasingly tired of words. "The long-playing record has revolutionized the art of leisure," writes Critic George Steiner in The Kenyan Review. "Music today is the central fact of lay culture." While music soars, argues Steiner, language suffers, as evidenced by advertising lingo, by the intrusion of science's untranslatable symbols into language and, in literature, by Hemingway's "lyric shorthand" and the inarticulateness of Arthur...
...careening world, Marcello Mastroianni divides his time as a young publicist between sensational events, effete parties, and various bedrooms. Marcello is supposed to be struggling, some might say having an "identity crisis": should he be a serious writer or continue churning out his gossip column? After his friend Steiner, an intellectual and would-be writer, murders his children and commits suicide, Marcello abandons his former ambitions and assumes the role of Master of the Revels for the film's climactic orgy...
...unified and connected the monotonous scenes of debauchery that follow each other in lubricious profusion. Through Marcello's eyes, we see one depraved spectacle after another. Individually these sordid vignettes succeed quite well, but, taken together, they do not comprise any kind of dramatic growth. Marcello's interlude with Steiner not only is unconvincing, but a bore in addition. If the funeral pace was intentional--to contrast with the orgies--Fellini erred in trying to express boredom by boring his audience. Although the Steiner episode should ostensibly have served as the keystone of his plot, Fellini did not shape...
...Steiner scored The Informer, a prize-winning movie...
Replotted Line. In court Sullivan's lawyer, Robert E. Steiner, loudly demanded vengeance. "Newspapers have got to tell the truth," he told the jury. "One way to get their attention and the attention of everybody else who publishes newspapers is to hit them in the pocketbook...