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...Brook (what a long way this is from his version of Midsummer-Night's Dream) cut about 1/3 of Shakespeare's lines and even a few whole scenes, but he was justified by his results. The kind of film that guarantees you'll just sit in your seat and stare for a good half hour after it's over...
...also stark because of the moment that Avedon tries to capture, as in the 1955 picture of a youthful Truman Capote. He reads the eyes of his subjects, waiting for that second when they reveal the facet of character he wants: he allows an older puffy-faced Capote to stare dully past the viewer; he confronts Igor Stravinsky eyeball to eyeball; and he has Sculptor June Leaf look through...
...people in the world, and the most perfect users of words." The line was more hopeful than prophetic. Today, many believe that the American language has lost not only its melody but a lot of its meaning. Schoolchildren and even college students often seem disastrously ignorant of words; they stare, uncomprehending, at simple declarative English. Leon Botstein, president of New York's Bard College, says with glum hyperbole: "The English language is dying, because it is not taught. " Others believe that the language is taught badly and learned badly because American culture is awash with clichés, officialese...
...their creation were pshchics, magicians, or the forerunners of mad scientists, artists who delighted in optical distortions. One gripping painting in warped perspective is of a girl whose eyes are painted in super sharp focus. The focus blurs out inconspicuously in everwidening circles so that the girl seems to stare intensely out of the painting and at first glance you can't understand...
...with its approval of Teddy Rooseveit's lingoistic Wipe-am-out mentality, people going around constantly warning the going around constantly warning the Barbary Pirates (who have kidnapped Candice Bergen) that "the big attack" will have its way. When the Americans finally do arrive and you're supposed to stare at the sheer power of this most powerful big-gunned nation in the world; they come in like stormtroopers, goosestepping silently, like machines, as the frightened Arabs clear the streets in terror. Meanwhile, both Candy and TR have galned a grudging respect for Sean Connery, the shelk/kidnapper...