Word: compressive
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...Japanese barons. Even in Shakespeare's plot, Kurosawa has condensed detail, juggled scenes, chucked the sentimental excrescences-among them, thank heaven, the soap-operatic murder of poor little Baby Macduff. Kurosawa's intention is plainly to hack off the Gothic foliage of Shakespeare's fancy and compress his tale into that traditional form of Japanese theater known as noh. As in those vast dance-dramas of destiny, Kurosawa's actors run to the grand mythological gesture, speak in noble recitative, and are accompanied by a queer, irrelevant commentary of abstruse instruments that...
...even better known than many of his facts, what Gunther does with unsurpassed skill is to compress and illuminate the conditions, conflicts and characters of nations that he has covered for more years than any other U.S. newsman left on the beat. Pundits may fault his tightly packed book as superficial. Most other readers will probably agree with Critic Harold Nicolson's verdict on the first Inside: "It's only superficial on the surface...
...they do, of course, the decision can always be reversed. But the bet is still justified, and only a single objection holds any water at all. That is the complaint of the Gen Ed courses that they must now further compress already-crowded course schedules to cover the material under their rubrics. Where this proves impossible or detrimental, the optional wording of the Faculty's decision can be invoked, and the course can elect to run straight through till exams--as in fact many upper-level courses...
...greatness that wasn't achieved at all. Miller screams out his own grief just as Marilyn Monroe shricks her accusation of murder at the climax of the film, incoherent with emotion, inarticulate with powerful words. He is too close to his own theme and characters, and can't compress his drama; emotion isn't concentrated, but extenuated. The playwright, not in control of the cinematic form, succumbs to diffuse writing, long transitions, and a weak, drawn-out plot...
...structure of Gorky's autobiography presented director Mark Donskoy with his greatest problem. A series of anecdotes, characters, observations, and philosophical reminiscences, the three volumes are tautly written though loose in form. In the construction of the films, it has been necessary to compress material, combine events by minor violations of chronology, and to except liberally. This is accomplished with great skill, and almost invariably the characters are presented with Gorky's sympathy and grimy clarity...