Word: deepening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million in the past nine weeks. Gold production, the country's most important industry, is booming. The blacks are cowed and quiet, their leaders driven deep underground or into the safety of emigration. All the while, Verwoerd is implementing measures to further strengthen his government and deepen the entrenchment of his apartheid policies. Among his latest steps...
...atribute this in part to its superb settings and photography, that deepen its mood of terror and melodrama. Bergman's regular designer, P.A. Lundgren, has placed a surrealistic sequence near the film's end, in a claustrophobic attic stacked with canvasses, sculptures, and decayed bits of ornate furniture--an achievement that would have pleased the young de Chirico...
...perspectives-years after the scarehead moment of horror, when anguish nullifies distance, and too soon for historical tragedy, when art provides it. But form and perspective apart, The Wall is simply not well enough written. Adapter Millard Lampell gets no leverage into language; his words do not heighten or deepen or darken, are never laconic or poetic or terrible. Rather than quivering with a Whitmanesque "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there." Lampell's lines come all too close to the sentimen tal and the stagy. The Wall is most effective-is indeed very effective...
...tendency toward sudden violence. Last year, after his Dutch wife left him for another man. he arrived at Amsterdam's airport with a gun in his pocket and proclaimed his intention of killing her. Chief worry: that the shooting of the Afrikaners' leader by an Engelsman would deepen the long Boer hostility toward the English-speaking whites...