Word: staticity
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Sometimes the form does "get lost" in Koerner's art. His colors lack decorative appeal, range from sweet to rancid. His compositions are often cluttered, usually static. His drawing is more able than inspired; his characterizations of people are sometimes so obviously strained that they verge on cartoon art. His use of shocking detail is often more calculated than convincing...
...newspapers (TIME, Jan. 16) had put Hawkins and Morehouse to work for the same boss, they were still sitting on opposite sides of the aisle. Last week, in the World-Telegram and Sun, Critic Hawkins found T. S. Eliot's new play, The Cocktail Party, "wordy, static and depressing, as well as artificially acted . . ."On the same page, Columnist-Critic Morehouse wrote that The Cocktail Party, was "literate and enormously interesting . . . combining poetic writing with a sharp sense of theater ... played with finesse and authority . . ." Motto of the Scripps-Howard W-T & S: "Give Light and the People Will...
Robert O'Hearn's sets are adequate, but they seem too heavy and static. The costumes, by Robert Fletcher, are generally brief, but interesting, if you don't mind gilded lumberjack hoots and bathing suits. Miles Morgan's lighting is well handled, particularly in the last seene after Hector's death...
...progress . . . increasing productivity [and] a constantly broadening distribution of purchasing power by an ever-improving ratio of prices to wages [i.e., higher wages or lower prices]. Unless the buying power of the masses, whose wants create markets, is progressively expanding, business will have to be content with a virtually static situation...
This sort of journey-through-society script might have led to a movie that really moved with the erratic spontaneity of street life. But The Bicycle Thief is oddly static. Events move predictably and almost mechanically. Each small experience of the distraught hero is meticulously rounded and forced in sentiment, character coloring and social comment.Even the minor movements of the actors-the boy's tumble on a rainy street, the mother's fingering of her cheek-appear overrehearsed...