In her review of Loud, Emily Mackay of NME called its experimentation more "organic" than that on Rihanna's previous album Rated R (2009), citing "Man Down"'s theme of "doomed youth".[38] Similarly, Nima Baniamer of Contactmusic.com pointed out that "Man Down", which she described as "a dark track" that is "haunting" yet "delightfully intriguing", was reminiscent of the material on Rated R.[21] In their review of Rihanna's top 20 songs, Time Out ranked "Man Down" as their tenth best track, writing that it is Rihanna at "her badass best".[39] Complex staff compiled a list of their top 26 Rihanna songs, and ranked "Man Down" in thirteenth place; Claire Lobenfeld thought that it was the singers most "cinematic" song of her career, and that she elevated the theme of "accidental manslaughter" from "downtrodden" to "adorable".[40]
As was the case with the Italian Westerns, "Hang 'em High" is a revenge story. Eastwood is strung up by a lynching mob, led by Begley. But he's cut down and vows to revenge himself. The friendly hanging judge of the nearby town (Pat Hingle) pins a badge on Eastwood, and he dutifully, sets out to gather enough scabs, scars, blisters and rope burns to satisfy the sado-masochistic standards set by Leone.
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The late, great cabaret singer and actress, Agnes Bernelle (1923-1999), was Evelyn's aunt. Her album, "Father's Lying Dead on the Ironing Board," swept the charts in Great Britain in the early 1990's. Agnes used a quote from Gertrude Stein -- "Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really frightening" -- to introduce her memoirs, The Fun Palace (1996). Her own life surpassed the plots of the films and plays in which she appeared. Torn between cultural, familial, and religious allegiances, even between the demands of motherhood and her career on the stage, she saw her life as a kind of fair-ground fun-house, full of unexpected twists, disorienting new environments, inevitable pratfalls, and an exhilarating slide down to rescue at the end. From her escape from Nazi Germany to her associations with Orson Welles, Winston Churchill and The Rolling Stones, Agnes became a cult figure, an early multi-media pioneer, who worked in radio, dance, theatre, film, television and cabaret.
I have argued that cataclysmic events, the perpetration of enormities, and other precipitous changes in the human condition, stretch personal and historic memory beyond the limits of the accommodations of the ordinary elastic range; they make a plastic deformation, leaving the psyche different, distorted, and ready to crystalize experiences around the wound in new ways. When we ask what lessons the historic memory of our time has drawn from these events, one finds that the most prominent response is, of course, self-protection on the conscious level. The atomic bomb and the Holocaust are rarely made part of educational curricula. On the contrary, for the masses the chief vehicle for presenting terror situations has been banalization(and exploitation). Examples are such movies and TV productions as Hiroshima Mon Amour, "Hogan's Heroes," The Night Porter, Mel Brooks's The Producers, Lina Wertmüller's Seven Beauties, and, most recently, videogames using Nazi protagonists in full uniform. 2ff7e9595c
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