Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bleak altar half hidden by incense smoke holds down the front of the stage. Shaman figures appear, chanting to a kind of voodoo drumbeat. On the altar, the body of a child is laid. The darkness is pierced by a primal scream. A priest plunges his hand into the human sacrifice and lifts out the heart, thrusting it, like a savage challenge, toward the civilized middle-class audience at Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater...
Despite the bleak injury prospect Harvard had something to cheer about for the firs time since last November the Crimson gathered all 12 first place votes in the New England soccer poll. The national rankings for the week have not yet been announced...
...title "an industrial neighborhood in Tokyo." Setting the mood for each episode with similarly fitting images, Ozu unrolls a cinematic parchment of Japanese prints, the black and white photography of the film heightening its formal links to traditional Japanese art. Each interior, every landscape shot, whether bleak or beautiful, instills respect for an eye so fine that it can turn the view of a train rushing through the industrial wastes of Tokyo into a sight as pleading as a misty seaside mountainscaps. One has often been criticized for sets that are too neat, tidy and unnatural, but his love...
WHILE THE SORROW'S over-all portrait of the French is bleak, many people are worthy of respect. Some are heroes. Counter to the accepted wisdom, the film suggests that these are not great men, but those who knew they must do something and did. Colonel "Gaspar" explains that he didn't like the Germans eating French beef when he had none, Emmanuel D' Astier de la Vigerie merely that he had to do something, and the same with the Grave brothers. Denis Rake, an English secret agent, very simply states that as a homosexual he wanted to prove that...
...work by the 66-year-old Soviet composer was played in Manhattan last week by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. It is in deed affirmative, at least by contrast with Shostakovich's bleak 14th Sym phony (1969), a meditation on death...