Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next half-hour, the show proceeded as predictably as if Kennedy and the assembled newsmen were following a script-as they might well have been. The President had a few announcements to make. Then came the questions, ranging from the oracular to the silly. "Mr. President," began Tom Wicker of the New York Times, "this is the first anniversary of your election last year, and in the campaign that preceded that election there was considerable talk." etc. Eighty-five words later, Wicker got to his point: If Kennedy were campaigning all over again, would he do it differently? (Answer...
...least one of the 19 questions that Kennedy fielded was not in the script. "Could you enlighten us sir." asked Jack Horner of the Washington Star, "as to why you're not having these press conferences more frequently-especially as to anything in particular you don't like about them?" Kennedy's response was revealing. "Well, I like them." he began; then he added hesitantly: "Sort...
...story is obscured by brilliant photography that makes the viewer concentrate on scenes rather than continuity, but the camera work has an expressive clarity and nightmare emotional intensity which speaks even more clearly than the script. It is this visual language, more than words, which says that Sandro sees Claudia as just a new adventure. But the same language portrays emotional tone so clearly that the film's message is clearly lodged in Claudia's changing attitude...
...returns from England to break the hold of an evil witch doctor (Brock Peters) on his superstitious people. Defying racial taboos, he falls in love with a white doctor (Sally Ann Howes). At this point there are enough doctors on stage to perform much-needed surgery on the script, but they never operate...
Julie Harris brings an entire patois of peasant gestures to her role, including a session of silently mouthing something like the Marseillaise when the wheels of justice grind too slowly. Even when the script asks to be played by leer, her gamin charm turns it into innocent merriment, as when she mimics her active lover: "He'd just tear and rip every which way, and I hate sewing." But there are always traces of the Harris poignance, a little girl lost and a trifle afraid, waking up in beds she never made...