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The piece also mentions that Steven Spielberg was in a deep funk after Amistad got jilted for Oscar noms.
They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)
Biographer Robert D. Richardson Jr. contends that by literally confronting death (ghoulish as it seems), Emerson was able to pull out of his funk and get back to the business of becoming a great American philosopher.
Pat Caddell fashioned Carter's "malaise" speech, blaming the people for the funk we were in (recalling the Brecht remark: the people are against the government; the government has to change the people), and now Sidney Blumenthal.
[Funk & Wagnalls New Standard]