Word: blurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world. But its truths are the dreariest truisms, its gamut a mere shuttling between the plushy and the preachy. It gives no new wrinkle to the lowlifes in highlife. Only the jangled sharpness with which English Actress Ann Todd plays the heroine has any resonance; all else is a blur of echoes and a drone of words...
...sleuth inexplicably praised by his Narcotics Division chief as "the best man we've got." To make himself even easier to follow, Howard drags along with him a red herring called Anita Ekberg. And he goes on a real Crook's Tour-from Manhattan to a kaleidoscopic blur of bars, boudoirs and bawdy hotels in London, Rome, Naples and Athens-all genuine-location stuff, reeled off at such a frenzied pace that it rouses longings for the good old days when movies were more leisurely and made in Hollywood...
...Munch. The work, which was four years in the writing, is solidly constructed and pricked by a series of adroit, Stravinsky-like dislocations of rhythm. The strings are almost continually and often trickily active -so much so that they tend to drown out the detail of other instruments and blur the musical ideas...
...blur of planeborne and trainborne candidates, of parades, rallies and TV shows, the 1956 campaign began to take recognizable shape. One month before Election Day what the candidates and their parties said, did and planned increasingly tended to conform to these factors...
...canvas is monumental in composition, dramatic in detail. It speaks-screams-of fate's flashing changes. An ordinary man overboard suddenly confronts the jaws of death. No softening atmosphere mists the facts. No historical, mythologic or literary connotations blur the issue. For sheer pity and terror, the picture stands alone in its age, when art either eulogized, moralized or titillated...