Word: decorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...building at 12 Holyoke St., which today houses both the Hasty Pudding Club and Theatricals, dates back to the 1880s. The decor, what there is of it, is simple: a few chairs and tables in every room. Posters and photographs from old Pudding shows blanket the walls. Many of the posters show a large investment of time and talent. Some are done in beautiful pastels and others in oil. Those from the early twentieth century display a marked Toulouse Lautrec influence...
Anticipating the nation's 200th anniversary, which will come at the end of Nixon's term, the Kennedy Center roof terrace will be done up in an 18th century decor. Hostesses wearing hoopskirted American Revolution-era costumes will serve the crowds from the concerts. After the Inauguration, more than 30,000, at a cost of $80 per couple, will crowd into the five Inaugural balls. Ballgoers will pay $1.50 for their drinks while waiting for the President and the First Lady to make their appearance at each. Besides receiving the plastic drink tumblers emblazoned with the Inaugural seal...
...outright would create an unhealthy climate for the spectator," he explains. For greater realism, he insisted on using an actual apartment rather than a set for the scenes between Paul and Jeanne, although he then chose very unrealistic colors and lighting to heighten the atmosphere. He required that the decor be in reds, oranges and flesh tones-"all uterine," in the words of Tango Set Designer Maria Paola Maino. The light that slanted into the rooms was always orange shafts from a low winter sun, contrasting with the cool violet and gray of the streets outside...
Vainly, Truffaut tries to recapture the formulas of past success. He uses a novelist (Roche) who once served him well and an actor (Leaud) he has often depended upon. He repeats his old formal mannerisms: voice-over narrative, camera rising, softly-focused backgrounds, and minute attention to period decor. In a cafe sequence there is even an exact duplication of a shot from Jules and Jim. But Truffaut is only going through the motions. At times he seems bored with his characters and one can hardly blame him. They are tedious people of a dull class in a dying culture...
...Savage Messiah is not only as offensive as Russell's earlier films, but lacks their only redeeming virtue, the power of visual shock. Its ingredients are the same: scenes of destruction and decadence, of incredible decor, exaggerated sentimentality, twisted passions and a non-stop dialogue of references to the terrors and joys of artistic fervor. But by now, this melange of heavy drama and unbroken noise-making is as old as Hollywood's infant epics. The vulgar baroque that once amazed, is muted in The Savage Messiah and serves only to exacerbate the bankruptcy of Russell's vision. He projects...