Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...geography of Kubrick's bleak landscape becomes explicit in his use of music. Whenever the woodwinds and brass turn up on the sound track, one may be fairly sure that something atrocious will appear on the screen-and be distanced by the irony of juxtaposition. Thus to the strains of Rossini's Thieving Magpie, a girl is gang-raped in a deserted casino. In a sequence of exquisite comédie noire, Alex cripples a writer and rapes his wife while tripping through a Gene Kelly number: "Singin' in the rain" (bash), "Just singin...
...their bleak planet. If Martian creatures found intense ultraviolet radiation unbearable, Sagan speculates, they may have developed tough silicate shells that would protect them from it. The reason that Mars does not reflect back much ultraviolet radiation, he says whimsically, may be that all those turtle-like creatures are absorbing...
...looks away for a moment to survey the bleak and chilly Cambridge streets, and then turns back again, drawing once more on his knowledge of American history to make his point...
...bleak flat areas can be sodded and planted. A building's watertank system could be extended to serve a pool or fountain, and elevator equipment could become a glassed-in display "for those who like to see the wheels go round." Harriss admits that such an urban transformation would take a little imagination and a lot of money. But the roof gardens would not only be a pleasant place to eat lunch; their greenery would also "exhale" oxygen, and so help to improve air quality...
Hallmark Aids. Throughout, Everding has succeeded in projecting the lovers' desire for eternal night and their equation of day with destructive reality. Tristan dies in a bleak courtyard as the sun burns harshly through a sea mist. But Isolde's Liebestod brings on more aeronautics. Arms outstretched, she again appears in the firmament, looking for all the world like a "Peace on Earth" Christmas card...