Its idea of "production value" is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision... of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Flowers ... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their colouring as gorgeous as the heavens, had thro...ugh thousands of years been the heritage of children--honoured as the jewellery of God only by them--when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Contramasculinity: the apparent selflessness of the female, who allows every man who comes her way to shape her; her lack of resis...tance, her limitlessness, that softness and pliancy which basically never take seriously the shape the man gives her. She is always capable of being molded to new shapes: this is what a man describes as the harlot in her, a basic element of the female character that he can never fathom. One might also call it playacting. Playing at being somebody different, at dressing up. When a man wraps himself in a costume, is he not in fact taking a step in the direction of perversion, femininity, contramasculinity?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one ...side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall comm...unicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I a...m no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefo...re withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways ... while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »