Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considering either leaving the country or going to jail in order to avoid induction. These are pretty drastic acts. The poll also showed that 94 per cent of the sample was against the present U.S. policy in Vietnam. But why are Harvard anti-war demonstrations so meager, so self-conscious, so temperate...
...more so because of the overriding example of Leonard Bernstein. His projection and box-office appeal have made him as much the model for conductors in his era as Toscanini was in his, although, as Bernstein nears 50, even he is slackening his frenetic pace somewhat. In this image-conscious culture, every orchestra wants its conductor to have some of Bernstein's incalculable personality force-what Conductor Charles Munch calls the "magic emanation" that can lift a conductor's performances above the mere exercise of knowledge and professional skill...
...viewer is more likely to be caught between boredom and sleep. Director Rolf Thiele seems to have been trying to make like Ingmar Bergman, with his period costumes, penumbral lighting, and self-conscious composition of every frame. But style is no substitute for substance. Most of what made the original story compelling-Tonio's long, self-probing speeches to Lisaveta and his conception of the writing man as both artist and bourgeois, free spirit and square-has been so compressed and truncated that it is lost in the snail's-pace atmosphere of the film. The result, unfortunately...
...Benjamin's emotions than we would see were the camera ten feet further away (a similar scene is done to perfection in Truffaut's Soft Skin); a scene shot through a diving mask and one with six frame inserts of Mrs. Robinson's naked body are obtrusively self-conscious, since nothing in previous scenes has prepared us for such technical gimmickry in isolated scenes...
...narrative films like Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) plans shots with relation to the entire scene. Nichols, however, cannot plan past a given shot, and although a frame may contain an effective gimmick, camera angle, or background detail, the scenes themselves are purposeless and disconnected, largely due to awkward and self-conscious editing...