Word: directedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Missing Idea. The behind-doors debate dragged on for half a year after the Russians exploded "Joe One." Then, in late January 1950, a shocking bit of intelligence decided the issue: German-born British Physicist Klaus Fuchs confessed that he had passed atomic secrets to Communist agents. Fuchs had...
Next morning Argov did not appear at the ministry to receive the message that the cyclist was out of danger. Friends broke into his flat, found him sitting at his desk, dead. There was a bullet wound in his temple; by his side, letters to the police and Ben-Gurion...
Despite the toll of influenza on the cast, Thomas Teal directed a sensitive and thoughtful production. He shuffled his brood on and off stage rapidly, and brought some comic order out of their wild gestures and earnest accusations. Costumes, lighting, and sets were all excellent.
The action is fully directed by Elia Kazan, whose extremely skilled hand is, if anything should be said against it, somewhat obvious. Thus the exaggerated poses of the boy toward his mother--for example, covering her body with his on the floor--are sometimes strained. But as a whole, especially...
Directed Connection. In Los Angeles, a Metropolitan Coach Lines bus driver rolled six miles nonstop through morning rush-hour traffic, zoomed past red lights and waiting passengers after Rider Netti Appleton, 39, enraged over bus-stop delays, jammed a loaded .38 pistol into his side, barked: "Keep going-I'...