Word: ornamentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neat clusters of condiments ornament the tables in the quiet, tobacco-free dining room of South Kensington's Onslow Court Hotel. There, in a silence broken only by the tinkle of chinaware, an occasional polite belch or a muffled platitude, retired colonels and well-to-do widows dine in respectable isolation without recourse to spirits. One of these was stately Mrs. Olive Henrietta Roberts Durand-Deacon, a widow of 69. She had few close friends at the hotel, but over a period of three years had struck up an acquaintance with a youngish (39) gentleman named John George Haigh...
...picture itself, it really is a fine job. Riches and ornament are lavished upon it but something sets it apart from the ordinary brassy Technicolor revue: possibly the plot, possibly the staging, possibly the perennial wisecracks of Oscar Levant. But however you look at it, credit will eventually bounce back on Astaire and Rogers. Cast as a bickering husband-wife stage team, these two leap, slide, and tap their way through scene after scene of pleasant comedy and wonderful dancing, and what's more, seem to enjoy...
...signals got switched, but Evita abruptly called off her speech to the opening session. When the pipiribi chair was placed on the rostrum, the Peronista party emblem had been hastily covered with a piece of ordinary leather. Obviously somebody had decided that a party emblem was not a proper ornament for a convention representing the entire Argentine people...
...concrete terms, this means that the new buildings will lack the ornament and decoration of undergraduate Houses, and even more important, will be far simpler in internal design and structure...
...film is black & white, not Technicolor; color feeds the senses and cloys the mind, and this is not a poem of sensuousness, but of sensibility. There is something approaching, if not quite achieving, absolute depth of focus. There is no pageantry and no ornament; the great, lost creatures of the poem move within skull-stark El-sinore-like thoughts and the treacherous shadows of thoughts. (Roger Purse's sets, as nobly severe and useful as the inside of a gigantic cello, are the steadiest beauty in the film. Next best: the finely calculated movement and disposal of the speakers...