Word: astonish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Story is seldom Antonioni's first concern, and in Red Desert he seems keener to offer Actress Vitti's jumpy, hyper-tense performance as an almost clinical study of neurosis. She is inspiringly alienated, for that sturdy cliché dissolves into a rich flow of images that astonish the eye. At one moment, a street scene goes entirely grey-including a vendor, his cart, fruit and all. When Vitti awakes in panic at night to find a toy robot clacking around her glacially modern home as though it had a will of its own, the very walls become...
Perhaps only in the U.S. would someone have conceived of repeating the gates to heaven. Yet, shining in their new cathedral portals, the doors also double Ghiberti's chance to survive, astonish and delight his viewers as freshly as he did in Florence five centuries...
...fact, that the Museum of Modern Art would not include some of his last and best pieces in its retrospective show in 1935. Many of them were never cast until the Los Angeles Museum put them into bronze for this show. But Lachaise never intended to embarrass or astonish-only to say something vital about the world in the most vital metaphor he knew...
...money-saving motions. That brought a furious floor blast from Cannon against the whole political atmosphere on the Hill. "Gentlemen," he roared, "justice is for barter and sale to the highest bidder. No one thinks about principle any more. They are ready to sell justice!" Then he proceeded to astonish his colleagues with direct, personal attacks on the leaders of his own party in the House, wound up with a withering slap at Speaker John McCormack. "I have sat under ten Speakers," roared Cannon. "I have never seen such biased and inept leadership...
This dirty trick seemed to outrage (for good reason) and astonish (for no easily articulated reason) Washington...