They dreamt of a Utopia built on pleasure-seeking, rationality and empathy.
"It is built on the pleasure of a great story, something that ideology is now crowding out of the early curriculum".
The movie culture of the 1960's -- whose holiest shrine was Henri Langlois's Cinémathèque -- was built on the pleasures of discovery and surrender.
It transforms a grimy, wintry New York into its true self: elegance built on money and pleasure built on spending, with the emphasis on showiness and display.
When he lands in the big smoke, perplexed by the airport escalator, it's not hard to understand the appeal the film has, particularly for American audiences: it's a story built on the simple pleasures of watching a jovial nincompoop from an exotic land bumble through life in a metropolis.
The rigor of art can have the opposite effect, and "The Turin Horse" is an example — an exceedingly rare one in contemporary cinema — of how a work that seems built on the denial of pleasure can, through formal discipline, passionate integrity and terrifying seriousness, produce an experience of exaltation.
But the public display of his frustrations, resentments, and pleasures is built on the superb work that he has done onscreen in movies that are enduring classics.
Behold the plastic fantastic fun-derland that is dance bonanza GlobalGathering - a neon pleasure-machine built on an abandoned airstrip in Stratford upon Avon where, last weekend, 50,000 people partied in 30C degree weather. .
He served as chairman for six years, seeing a new children's hospital built on the site and having the pleasure of welcoming the Queen to formally open it in 1997.
Mr. Masur draws particular pleasure from an improved attitude among the players, one that is built on self-respect and trust, he said.
Plato built on the ancient common sense that connected pleasure with the satisfaction of felt longing or desire and also on early scientific speculation equating pleasure with the fulfillment of bodily needs.
