Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY has as its key character a shining oblong object symbolizing a great extraterrestrial intelligence that has overseen mankind since the Pliocene age. Though it fails as drama, Stanley Kubrick's venture succeeds as dazzling visual art.
TIME'S Vienna Bureau Chief Peter Forbath, who reported for the earlier cover and is a student of Czechoslovak character and politics, joined up with a massive Russian army convoy of heavy vehicles, field pieces and armored personnel carriers moving down the narrow roads in the foothills of the...
In addition to Margin, the panel includes Sterling Patch, M.D., a congenital bureaucrat and head of the Bureau of Infantile Resources Potential, and Bert Rubble, director of a think tank called CEFALOPOD (Center for Attrition, Logistics, Policing and Deterrence). Rubble is by far the most amusing and terrifying character. A...
Much of Hitchcock's art relies on point-of-view, the director showing action as seen by the protagonist. When the audience and the characters share a single eye, audiences naturally begin to identify with the person through whose eyes they see; Hitchcock often undermines our complacency by forcing us...
A series of musical numbers work for humor in several dimensions at once, as they treat cliches of musical tradition, situation comedy, character humor and verbal wit. Judy Kahan parodies a torch song singer of the long-legged husky-voiced school in "Euclid's Elemental." Perched on the piano, she...