As for "Green Onions," a song that is the foundation of the label's identity, we could take the words of Booker T. Jones himself, who, in Robert Gordon's recent book, "Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion," describes it as capturing "this attitude of making it as funky as can be, as simple as can be".
My friend's daughter, who attends one of those schools where all the students are children of either well-off Nigerians or well-paid expatriates, recently captured this attitude while summarizing the plot of my novel to her mother.
The form of skepticism that seems best to capture this attitude is Academic skepticism, which is in fact the position he explicitly espouses when accused of Pyrrhonism by Jurieu.
Local pidgin has an expression, "Cool head, main t'ing" (or "thing" for standard English fanatics) that perfectly captures this island attitude.
The opening number, "Christopher Street," which presents Greenwich Village as a happy-go-lucky bohemia, captures this attitude most promisingly, as tourists and residents face off in a ballet of voyeurs and poseurs, clad in Martin Pakledinaz's Crayola-colored costumes.
What Mr. Stone excels at is conjuring the mood of specific times and places, capturing the attitude he and his friends shared as well as the larger zeitgeist.
You can't slip up and talk like a regular person, and should remember to be capturing the attitude of a pirate at all times.
Like other texts, film is a cultural artifact, capturing the attitudes, values, and behaviors expressed in language and visual imagery.
"He captures the culture, he captures the attitude and he really highlights the ridiculous on issues that are blocking us," said Fatin Yousef Bundagji, a business consultant and activist.
It's been said a great photograph should capture the attitude, the soul and the mind of a great moment.
The opening lines of "Star Trek" captured the attitude of '60s-era Americans; we were divided on other issues but united in support of our space program.
