Word: flashings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Salesman is surely one of the most moving and accomplished examples of cinema verite so far. Yet ultimately, the Maysles brothers are crippled by the inherent limitations of their technique. Although they use flash-forwards and other devices of fictional film, they are still bound to include only what actually happened in front of their camera. They cannot re-create or conjecture; they must rely solely on the moment itself. Federico Fellini once asked, "Why should people go to the movies, if films only show reality through a very cold, objective eye? It would be much better just to walk...
...LEAST there were advantages in that clique. It revolved around Mayer--he had charisma, "talent, flash, élan that brought people in, and a controlled theatrical madness." Scott Kirkpatrick, who built for the summer company for two seasons and produced Erie said they felt they were doing something good that wasn't in existence anyplace else around here. "We thought we did a good job, and that we could affect people...
...Robert Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer in English Literature, are the faculty members under whose signed advice X was approved. All this, of course, is to establish some sort of credibility. You see, X is no one night stand; no, as they say, fair-weather baby; not a flash in the pan, you know; not this one, no fly-by-night...
...makes one laugh till it hurts, partly because the ache of recognition is in every line and situation. She has the wit to see that if Pavlov's dogs salivated at the tinkle of bells signifying food, modern man is not so very different. He salivates at psychological flash cards marked Emotional Maturity, Identity Crisis, Making a Commitment, as well as at traditional cues for action such as Education, Work, Love, Marriage, Family, Success...
...today's jetliners, if a pilot allows his speed to reach 85% of the speed of sound, a bell rings and a light flash es to caution him to go no faster. There is good reason for the warning. Beyond that limit, the big ships generate turbulence that causes a drastic loss in efficiency and sometimes dangerous buf feting. Thus, although the sonic barrier is around 660 m.p.h. at the normal jet cruising altitude of 35,000 ft., commercial jets are held down to a speed of about 560 m.p.h...