Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lately, since CRIMSON reviewers have decided it is nicer to be loved than feared, the old enemy-encampment aura has disappeared from the place, and a certain familiar felicity in power exists between the paper and the world of drama...
...mystery. Many of them work in perpetual semidarkness and others in rooms that seem as barren as the face of Mars. Some spend their days poring over books and others sit for hours staring through picture windows at the 115 acres of their campus-like enclave. The aura of the place is one of uncertainty, as if no one quite knows what will happen next. No one does know. That is what makes the Experimental Station of E. I. du Pont de Nemours one of the world's most exciting places in which to work...
...company decided to create an aura of luxury around the new synthetic by initially making it scarce and as costly as top-quality leather; prices for most of the shoes now range from $20 up, but Corfam may also appear in less expensive shoes in the spring. The public's response, despite the high prices and limited styles so far, has surprised even Du Pont. Corfam shoes are being turned out by 45 major shoemakers, and stores are heavily reordering. Already 700,000 customers have bought the shoes; Du Pont hopes that Corfam in 20 years will...
...very mad, very English, and very nearly preposterous. But for viewers eager to empty their minds and concentrate on such creepy business, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes (The L-Shaved Room) works an aura of disaster into every nook and passageway of a turreted old mansion. As the demented psychic, Myra, Kim Stanley manages so many subtle shifts of mood that she seems simultaneously sweet, bitchy, poignant, and a deadly menace. The kidnap scene is a cinematic whirlwind, with the camera cutting and lashing across the landscape to build to a moment of crisis when the victim (Judith Donner) locks herself...
...atmosphere surrounding the Keating campaign, like the Senator himself, is subdued. It lacks what one reporter who has covered both candidates calls the "Presidential aura" of the Kennedy campaign...