Word: angularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look at Detroit. When he saw it, he wept. Beneath him, whole sections of the nation's fifth largest city lay in charred, smoking ruins. From Grand River Avenue to Gratiot Avenue six miles to the east, tongues of flame licked at the night sky, illuminating the angular skeletons of gutted homes, shops, supermarkets. Looters danced in the eerie shadows, stripping a store clean, then setting it to the torch...
Between all-too-predictable guests last week (Joan Collins, Erik Estrada), Thicke unveiled his regular troupe of sketch performers. Except for the razor-sharp cynicism of angular Richard Belzer and the loudly self-absorbed improvisations of Gilbert Gottfried, they came off as Not-Ready-Even-for-Late-Night Players. More promising are such regular features as Pipeline, a takeoff of Nightline, which last week examined a prison that had gone condo, and Flick of the Night, which overdubs old film clips with irreverent irrelevancies. The bookings may also improve. Already taped are interviews with less overexposed celebs like Lana Turner...
Based on press accounts of the find, Grindlay estimated that the "angular resolution" of the Infrared Astronomy Satellite--operated jointly by the U.S., Britain, and the Netherlands--was too great to accurately detect the kind of readings that the circling cloud of particles might induce...
Boisterous ensemble numbers, such as "I Had Twins" and "Come With Me," have just the right angular snap to accompany the vivacious goings on-but, surprisingly, these numbers are few and far between. From the wry and ironic ("He and She") to the mock angry ("This Must Be Love"), love songs carry the evening. Rodgers and Hart humanized this essentially cruel comedy of slapstick and pratfall by bathing it in soft and lyrical Broadway footlights...
...club of James Dean fans--in the one-room Five & Dime in a barren town in Texas. Altman borrows the best qualities from the live theatre of precisely staged movements and vocal patterns and merges them with the best potentials of the cinema--fluid-flashbacks, close-up shots and angular filming. The setting of the tacky small-town corner Five & Dime, with its plastic-covered swivel stools around the counter, the displays of cheap trinkets, and the neon-like wall displays and jukebox, never become too confining as Altman uses perpetually changing positions for the characters. His use of reflections...