Word: ceric
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...last Sunday Briggs and I discovered we're no oddsmakers. We stumbled upon our myopia as a steel-tempered sky burned into crystal-hung night. We went chasing jail-bait and missed our aim and slummed our way into Daniel and Gay's ceric world...
This is where that relentless pursuit has finally led: straight over the cliff and into a sea where dream and reality merge with haunting fluidity. The most fantastic appearances are lent an ceric reality by celluloid and by the night. At night and on film, the huge painted sky shadowing Twentieth's "Western Town" (a sky which, by day, seems absurdly naive in its patent fakery) loses its hard edges and seems to soar up into the "real" sky. Its splashes of white cloud float free, lit by a moon whose own reality you cannot feel sure...
...master hand of Louis de Rochemont is obvious in such touches as market place scenes and the ceric effect of coweled monks sitting, mummy-like in their stalls, singing Gregorian chants. And director Irving Pichel controls the pace, never allowing the action to falter or interfere with the film's message...
...remainder of the program Miss Colish lost her inhibitions and played brilliantly. Five Romanian Folk Dance by Bartok, each a compact little bundle of emotion, received thoughtful, idiomatic performances. I especially liked Pe Loc, whose ceric and exceedingly difficult harmonics have doubtless been the undoing of many a lesser musician...
...only refreshing notes are the excellence of Barbara stanwyck, perfectly cast as a questionable woman, the wonderful Irish brogue of Barry Fitzgerald, and the ceric perfection of a knife fight. By warping the conventional meat and potatoes script. Paramount has succeeded only in weakening Ray Milland's excellent reputation and in alienating what Western lovers it still has left...