Word: damping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gang's flatcar rolls through a thicket, and to the pond where two convicts paddle a boat ashore and escape into a car which pulls into view as the camera completes its circle. All the way around, it pans a whole expansive environment, a distance of soft green and damp air which will dominate the film, cushioning the violence of its bank robber heroes like their own lonely needs and sentiments...
French cinematographer Jean Boffety has helped give this world a pale damp beauty. Critic Pauline Kael compared the effect to the mood of Faulkner, but there is something lyric and almost painfully beautiful which could exist nowhere outside of film. There are wonderful details of gas stations and motor courts which recall Walker Evans, like the shots taken through screen doors to which bits of a painted bread ad still adhere or the recurrent presence of Coke bottles with their pale green glass, and Coke signs, even at the entrance of the state prison. But the effect of this carefully...
When the Nixon Administration first imposed wage and price controls in August 1971 to damp down the fires of inflation, consumer prices were rising at a worrisome rate of 4% a year. Since then the controls have been loosened, tightened and loosened again as the nation went through Phases I through IV, not to mention Freezes I and II. After all the tinkering, prices are now rising at a 9% annual rate. Partly in view of that record, the Administration last week announced that it would ask Congress to allow almost all economic controls to expire...
...town's houses, a foghorn drives the fishing boats off the rocky shore. The foggy air magnifies the sound of the waves, but deadens all other noise. When I stood on the edge of the rock seawall and called Francois's name, my voice was swallowed up in the damp...
...Sutherland character, at least, is engaged in an intellectual, noble activity--saving Venice. The couple go to Venice to get over their daughter's death. Venice here is a beautiful city but with a feeling of danger about it. It is late autumn, the end of the tourist season, damp and windy. The strange Venetian cats are vaguely frightening. And as John says of the church he's working on: "The deeper we get the more Byzantine it gets...