Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attention was diverted when I noticed a more ambitious hand maneuver its paper loop under the largest goldfish in the tub, and lift it swiftly out of the water. I watched the goldfish as it lay tenuously in an iridescent arc, its tail and head hanging over the sides of the fragile circle. In a second it began to squirm and twitch. Tail and head arched spastically upward to meet the other, reversing the direction of its parabolic arc. The goldfish's contorted torso drilled through the water-weakened paper, slipped bodily through the loop in a fluorescent shimmer...
Harvard Film Archive. "The Overcoat" at5:30 p.m. "The Passion of Joan of Arc" at 7:30p.m
...suddenly leaps into the final chorus, bobbing atop the careening rhythm with a tone that begins as a crackle and winds up pure and delicate as crystal. On the slow-building Solea, he struggles to find himself, then, catching his wind, lets fly a cascade of notes that arc and shimmer with the same brassy authority he wielded 30 or 40 years ago. It was a final courageous flourish, and typically Davis. From struggle and defiance he drew his power, right...
...African whites cannot suppress the blacks without exacting a death toll they cannot tolerate; neither can the blacks shoot their way to power. By joining hands in a multiracial transition council, they can lift the international sanctions that have beggared them both. Such realizations come hard, over a long arc of years, after all attempts to demolish the enemy are done...
Plenty of the John Woo stamp remains despite restrictions, however. Woo's most recurrent touch is the arcing closeup. Tight shots on the face, directing attention to the eyes, do not hold still, but arc around the head. The meditative, emotional effect is powerful and highly unusual for an action film...