Word: detachedness
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Onstage nearly every minute of the play, James Goldstien wrestles relentlessly with the role of Dysart. When he has a firm grasp on Dysart, Goldstien is very fine indeed, but when he loses confidence, his performance slips into woeful mediocrity. For much of the play, his stiff gestures and forced...
As for the more subjective grievances - that Washingtonians are power mad, detached and dull - it is first of all an impertinent accusation to level at those (and there are more all the time) who live in Washington wholly removed from the power circles. There are plenty of D.C, dentists whose...
Instead, the "new realists" proposed something more detached, skeptical and hardheaded: an art of the street, the cafe, the factory line, the docks and brothels. Some of its collective character might be gleaned from the title Bertolt Brecht gave one of his poems: "700 Intellectuals Pray to an Oil Tank...
He has a wryly detached wit. He says a man's lips scarcely moved, "as if he were keeping them poised for the next sip of alcohol, which, it seemed, was never more than a few seconds away," and describes a group of a "new strain of flower child...these...
The credits announce that this is "a film composed by Jean-Luc Godard." Every Man is shaped in the form of a sonata, with thematic variations expressed through recurring images and lines of dialogue. But this is a ghost sonata, and the specter is that of the old (young) Godard...