Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like William Inge's 1950 play, which Daniel Mann (who also directed the stage version) has carefully and faithfully transferred to the screen, the picture skirts the chaotic core of its subject, substituting pity for penetration, sympathy for real insight. The film also blunts some of the drama's edges (e.g., the seduction of the college student) because of the requirements of screen censorship. But the movie remains a generally honest and affecting examination of a marriage dying piecemeal from a sort of emotional anemia. The picture is at its best when it owes least to the stage...
Three months and 96 X-ray pictures later, the experts were able to assemble what looked at first glance like a chaotic triple exposure. Studied closely, the pictures showed that Caravaggio had unmistakably started two earlier versions of his famous painting on the same canvas, and covered them over. The experts isolated parts of ten figures, deduced which of them belonged to each version, and filled them out in painstaking sketches. In a pamphlet published last week, Critic Venturi reported the findings...
...pensions were slyly slipped into law last July during the chaotic windup of the state legislature. They were spotted," weeks later, by the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations, a privately sponsored research group. Among the findings...
...spelled out intercompany agreements on production and prices during the chaotic Depression '30s-agreements which, like the New Deal's own NRA, tried to limit production to get prices back to a profitable level...
...bureau, on charges involving "millions of dollars" of illicit currency deals. They hinted that some others also would be arrested. It remained to be seen what responsibility, if any, would be at tached to Joseph Joham, who has progressed so profitably through depression, Anschluss, war and chaotic peace...