Word: stiltedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To give his slow story some contrapuntal rhythm and social significance, Lelouch cuts from shots of the triangle (filmed in Technicolor), to monochromatic scenes of conflict in Africa and Asia, presumably covered by the hero. The vulgar-cliche style of these sequences can only be described in Nabokov's...
During the Stalin period, most Russians managed to acquire an official self that they presented to all but their closest friends: they were Bolshevized into becoming suspicious, stilted and somber in their dealings with others. Today's less cruel but still existing repression, says Princeton Historian James Billington, "breeds...
There are interludes of genuine hilarity, chiefly provided by Bob Dishy as a zany, Teutonically accented technician of ever-improving death machines who is always ready to sell his services to the highest bidder. The cast delivers the lines as if they were quotations, and even such accomplished performers as...
A PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. A distinguished and versatile critic gathers shards of youthful experience into a memoir that says farewell to the innocence-his own and the country's-that was shattered by World War I. The...
Earlier, in stilted fashion that hopefully will not become habit-forming, Bishop announced: "It's with a great deal of pleasure that I'm afforded the privilege of having as my first guest, Governor Ronald Reagan." The Governor got off one good line, noting that "I've...