Word: staticity
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...Cantilevered Terrace consists of conversation to the extent that a water melon consists of water, but the play's poetic juices run far too purple. The drama is static, but often as electricity is static. None too likable, the characters assert their right to respect as well as humiliation. As a failure, Terrace exerts more magnetic pull on a playgoer than some playwrights' successes...
...Long-Range Navigation) can give a navigator an accurate, medium-range fix. But despite the promise of its name, LORAN does not reach dependably to the middle of the Atlantic, and strong "atmospherics" (static) can put it out of action...
...started using radar to trap speedsters shortly after World War II, U.S. motorists have been searching for ways to beat the electronic rap. With misguided ingenuity, hot-rodders packed hub caps with uranium ore or loaded them with steel balls; they sprayed the fan blades with aluminum paint, dangled static chains from rear bumpers, festooned their radio aerials with strips of aluminum foil. But nothing seemed to foil highway radar, and latter-day Barney Oldfields continued to be hauled in like herring in a net, whining "Unfair...
What did interrupt this continuity were the periodic barbarian invasions which jolted the civilization from its static condition. These invasions coincide with a new force and vigor...
There is no denying that each frame of Ivan results from a true genius for design, but that is the trouble. The beauty of each individual shot tends to make the motion picture as a whole somewhat static. Eisenstein hovers ponderously over each of his symmetrical arrangements and seems to say in a very obtrusive voice: "See what a thing of loveliness I have constructed...