Word: baldingly
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...avalanche of absurdity has careened down and bowled them over, and they're left almost punchy, distanced from the world. Some intellectual force of habit makes them feel uneasy, as though they are missing out by not having a clear picture of what arises out of Rhinocerous or The Bald Soprano--some coherent and all-embracing recollection of a theme on all its levels...
...Sense of Loss, the scene in which a husband and wife tell of the bomb murder of their 17-month-old son Colin is the most moving and valid testimonial to the insanity of war that I have ever seen. And when the hero of Sorrow and Pity, the bald-headed Grave brother, admits that he knew the informer who sent him to Buchenwald but decided not to revenge himself, I was brought up short: could I have shown the same strength of character...
...EXTRAORDINARY EYE for comic, human detail prevents all but a few such bald moments from materializing. On one occasion, the physical possibility of holding hands comfortably while lying side by side is used to subtly underscore Lila and Lenny's uneasy relationship. To emphasize Lenny's guilt and embarrassment during the break-up scene, the camera matches Lila's cries or his frantic whispers with closeups of disapproving restaurant customers within earshot. Lenny's frigid welcome in Protestant Minnesota is highlighted by a monotonous radio voice droning the sub-zero weather report, which seems to follow him everywhere...
SIMON But I don't write gags. A gag is Fred Allen saying a man is so bald he car ries his dandruff in his pocket...
...that people no longer expect to get their necessary information from art; it was this gap that the artist-made video tape promised to close. But an event does not automatically gain aesthetic meaning because it is recorded, handheld, on half-inch tape. Too many video pieces are either bald documentaries or hermetic diaries. Watching a tape of some artist making funny faces at himself has as many longueurs as gazing into the painted eye of a Landseer spaniel...