Word: context
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then made it over again putting in dialog where it fitted. All the big scenes are movement, and talk makes the shorter ones funnier, helps the action get started. The gags, like Lloyd's lecture on the petunia in the fingerprint studio, are meaningless when separated from the context but uproarious in it. Originally Welcome Danger was three hours long. Lloyd cut it himself at previews in a small town near Los Angeles, marking cuts whenever the audience stopped laughing. Best shots: Lloyd's account of his love-affair with a girl whose picture he obtained from...
...decent interval, he is so hopeful of a reconciliation that he is bold to ask Ina Claire whether "anything had happened," and Miss Claire, who has spent her respite quarreling with Henry Daniel about opening a window, answers laconically, "Nothing unusual." You might lift her phrase from its context and apply it as criticism to the picture as a whole but only, in fairness, if you excluded the suavity of the tone with which it is uttered and the unfailing gaiety that gives it point. Director Marshall Neilan does a good job transposing stage values to the screen. Actress Claire...
Voohnmad Sirs: Surely the signature to the enclosed is ficticious. Spell it backward and consider the result in connection witht he context of the letter. It cannot be merely a coincidence. It smacks of the recent Harvard hymn. I hope you didn't print it knowingly. M. L. HAVEY New York City...
Interpretation by Context...
...State Legislature to amend the law relative to obscene literature, which, as it now stands, has been responsible for the banning of about fifty books in the past year. The new measure would entirely eliminate books from jurisdiction under this law, and a book would be judged by its context as a whole rather than by a single phrase or paragraph...