Word: impactions
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...doubt as to the import of what the U.S. and the U.N. did last week was dispelled by the world reaction. No event since V-J Day had had such an impact on world opinion...
Spinning out his story in a series of flashback monologues, Novelist Foote has a keen eye for the drama of a small-town courtroom in the South and an unmistakable talent for reporting the impact of human passion on the spectators' dull, ordered lives. All that keeps him from writing a really first-class novel is an unfortunate tendency to borrow overmuch from the verbal mannerisms of Neighbor William Faulkner. But there is nothing wrong with Novelist Foote that a little more literary independence cannot cure...
McCleery has some doubts that he will be able to duplicate the impact of The Lottery on any of his remaining shows. "Just like everyone else," he says, "we have trouble getting good scripts. All the wealth of NBC couldn't get me 18 good shows." His aim is "to show we can do things of delicacy and violence by using the arena theater in television. Isn't that enough for a starter...
...Dufy, Chagall and Matisse, for example, have applied their free-wheeling philosophy primarily to color, laying it on canvas in broad, brilliant, arbitrary splashes, and raising it to an intensity never before equaled in Western painting. Rouault trowels on his colors like hot coals, achieving the richness and emotional impact of Gothic stained glass-which also shuts nature out. Braque, who is more interested in form than color, leads the eye on surprising new adventures by painting shapes that seem to shift and change as one looks at them. The results may sometimes shock; they can also feed the imagination...
...Mature is cast as somewhat of a likeable wise guy but the full impact of his role never quite gets over. It's hard to tell why, for Mr. Mature once played a role well. It's hard to remember how he was cast in that picture for it was some time ago, but I think he was a villain. It is possible that he is currently being bothered with a speech impediment for his mouth never opens more than a quarter of an inch, even when he is saying...