Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hall's wife Susan sewed together the first pair of shorts, while Stein, a graphic designer, created a prototype...
Great Photographic Essays from LIFE, commentary by Maitland Edey (New York Graphic Society; 278 pages; $24.95). From its first issue to its last, the old weekly LIFE (1936-1972) published some 2,000 photo essays. These were as original in concept as the magazine itself: skillfully composed picture stories that explored the lives of private people, their tribulations and triumphs, jinks high and low, the places they inhabited or returned to or recalled. This collection, elegantly introduced and annotated by Maitland Edey, a former assistant managing editor of LIFE, includes such classics as W. Eugene Smith's Spanish Village...
...Pronto-Graphic Inc. of Burlington, Mass. will print the first issue this year...
There is a raw, uncontrolled quality about Midnight Express that accounts for the film's magnetic pull on the viewer. The violence is graphic and uncompromising, mindful of no boundaries imposed by discretion or "good taste," whatever that might be. Brad Davis' performance as Billy reinforces this no-holds-barred quality, and in virtually any type of movie, the acting job he delivers might have served as an embarassing distraction. But Midnight Express was just the right film for a newcomer like Davis willing to throw himself into the lead role with precisely that lack of restraint. His grimaces, anguished...
...symphonies and thundering crescendos at the sight of Peck ludicrous. The pace is non-existent until the last twenty minutes, a bloody brawl between Peck and Laurence Olivier as an old Nazi-hunter, when it may be labeled "slow." The old men resort to biting each other, and the graphic shredding of Olivier's ear and Peck's hand detracts aesthetically from the suspense...