Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Yes-or-No Language. The machines prefer such numbers because their essential parts (electrical relays or vacuum tubes acting like swift relays) obey only two commands: yes or no-i.e., an electrical signal or no signal. So all information fed into the machines has to be predigested into yes...
Out of this excellent idea, which less skilled hands might have reduced to farce, the British moviemakers have spun a tight little comedy of pure gold. Like Scotch whisky, it is a peculiarly British product with strong transatlantic appeal. Filmed entirely in the Hebrides, where the faces are as roughhewn...
¶ A writer should never stop work on the job of creating his own character.
The Assyrian collection suffers precisely from the fact that Saroyan is so busy creating his own character that he has little time left for the characters in his stories. Bright and shiny on the surface but mushy and sentimental at the core, the stories are pretty much standard Saroyan: a...
The play moves slowly at first, as the authors establish the situation and character relationships. After the first act, it picks up a good deal of speed and dramatic power. The same is true of the acting. Ralph Clanton is convincing, often frighteningly so, as the Earl, a man of...