Word: deadening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOLD VENTURE-"The program's potential for harm may be lessened by the bad acting, the bad writing and absurd story line that deaden somewhat the impact on the viewer...
...visit the Dalai Lama and see for themselves that he was not being held "under duress" as the Red radio proclaimed. Nehru hoped that conditions would "some day" relax so that the God-King might go home to Tibet. His own contribution, whether intentionally or not, was to deaden the world's outrage, while the Red Chinese put down the rebellion...
...entire play unfolds as in a dream ... The movement of the actors should be either heavy or else extremely and incomprehensibly rapid, like flashes of lightning. If they can, the actors should deaden the timbre of their voices. Avoid clever lighting. As much light as possible...
...film is as much a pleasure to see as it is to hear. Hardly a single routine shot of rolling countrysides deaden the 20 minutes running time. Morgan and his associate Richard Harris have concentrated on details: a few chickens shaking the water of a rainstorm form their feathers, the closeup of a ringing church bell, a frog in a pond. And then there are the people of Auvergne themselves, their faces caught haggling over the price of a bill at the fair and their hands weighing out fish in a market-place. Although Songs of the Auvergne is photographed...
...they had completed their six month service period. It is important, the Commission stressed, that the program maintain the rights of reservists "to speak, to dissent, to believe as they choose, to equal justice under the law." Nine and a half years of drill hall and camp routine might deaden reserve morale. And a decade of indoctrination could create a conditioned military response to the world's problems on the part of many trainees...