Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here is in how Shaffer has constructed this sometimes--too-slick play to heighten suspense and to raise some interesting questions on the side. Equus brings to life a mythical resonance and intellectual concerns that aren't too prevalent in contemporary drama--and this, I think is why it has been acclaimed "brilliant" time and again by critics--but these concerns are cheapened...
...additional factor that should heighten the winning desire is that the game is being shown on regional television. Football players aren't above a little glorymongering...
...attempt to revive the old revue format is noble, but the material for the Wild Stunt Show is simply atrocious. The jokes are so trite, so moldy and artless that we wonder whether they are purposely so in order to heighten the nostalgic values. They either fall into the category of the travelling salesman and farmer's daughter, or into the category of stupid. All are repetitious. There are some notable gimmicks, but to reveal them here would be to deprive them of any possible humor they might have had, because they are just that, substanceless gimmicks...
...Chabrol's self-appointed mission to heighten our awareness" of these struggles by presenting them in an admittedly exaggerated, stylized manner, a manner that deliberately jars against his utterly realistic mise-en-scéne. There are moments in his movies in which be lief in what one is seeing threatens to dissolve into laughter, but there are many more in which we are shocked into a new awareness that beneath the surface of ordinary-looking lives, high dramas of genuine moral dimensions are being played...
...order to clarify the salient points of the student proposal and heighten discussion of student participation, the coalition has declared today W.E.B. DuBois Day. At 3:30 p.m. in Science Center B, DISC is sponsoring a DuBois Institute forum. At 7:30 p.m. in Science Center B. Shirley Graham DuBois will speak on "Black Liberation--Then and Now." Today is a historic occasion for those concerned with the study of the Afro-American experience. Shirley DuBois's appearance and the student committee proposals are further steps in the continuing struggle of minority groups to speak out against racial discrimination...