Word: wondrously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BEAR. When it comes to technique, this wondrous movie is to other nature films what Star Wars was to science fiction: a redefinition of the state of the art. Even the most sophisticated filmgoers will be enchanted by this ursine tale, told from a bear's point of view...
...imply that The Bear, which is an adaptation by French filmmakers of a 1916 novel by the American outdoorsman James Oliver Curwood, lacks educational value. Or that children will not be charmed by the misadventures of its bouncy, cuddly hero. But the highest pleasures of this wondrous movie lie not in its apparently artless narrative but in the artful ways it transcends...
...smorgasbord of sight and sound that is 1000 Airplanes on the Roof will leave your senses reeling; your psyche will stagger about, striving to bring sanity to bear against a sensual overload, trying to assimilate the hyper-real unreality of the wondrous ravings of a lunatic. As the house lights return you to the world of the mundane, you will struggle to breathe and to re-learn the ability to function without music and light pushing you, oppressing you, uplifting...
Peter Case, a wondrous songwriter and singer whose recent album The Man with the Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar is good enough to carry like a talisman into the uncertainties of the '90s, sees the difficulty in broader terms. "Rock 'n' roll has just become a new form of Disneyland," he says. "The whole thing has got mythologized to the point where it's just a bunch of rubbish." Greil Marcus, who writes formidably on popular and radical culture (the recent Lipstick Traces), talks about the "suicidal nostalgia" surrounding a lot of contemporary music: "People have been sold...
...stunning uprising in China, of course. But it is only the latest event in the democratic demarche, which began with the Philippines and Korea and has now reached wondrous proportions...