Word: echo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carpower horse, Silver. The Green Hornet had a faithful Japanese valet, Kato (during World War II Kato abruptly became a Filipino), and a supercar with the name of a horse, Black Beauty. The supernatural thrived in a Poe-like atmosphere on Inner Sanctum and Lights Out -programs that featured echo chambers, creaking doors and the indelible clack of skeletons rising from granite tombs. Dashiell Hammett's detectives, Sam Spade, The Thin Man and The Fat Man, gave audiences a private eye and earful; other ops-Philip Marlowe, Philo Vance and Martin Kane-were even more hardboiled. Ben Hecht himself...
...highly encouraging sign is that for all their confusion and fears the American people are still far from apathetic. Leaders of both parties echo Georgia Democratic Governor Jimmy Carter's assessment of the voters: "They are searching for some stability and for some faith in government, and they haven't seen it yet. The people have a great reservoir of willingness to sacrifice -if they feel they are being told the truth. The people want something cleansing. They want to do something to show allegiance to the country...
...believe there will be a recession and start cutting their expenditures so as to increase their savings, they will help to bring about the very thing they fear." A fear voiced by some American economists that a prolonged Arab oil squeeze would really devastate the European economy found little echo in the group. Most members assumed, rightly or wrongly, that the Arabs simply will not force Europe to its economic knees...
TROELL, WHO PRODUCED, directed and edited the film, creates a world that rings true both as history and as cinema. His soft colors and elegant camerawork belie a willingness to experiment for chilling or striking effects such as the visual echo of quick cuts which shatters the silence of the forest when Karl-Oscar's younger brother Robert shoots what he believes is an Indian warrior. In his control of natural images, his imagination and sense of the complex relations of individuals to social processes, Troell comes closer to Bergman than any other current director. He edges near the best...
...peculiar how the soul protects the thin flame of consciousness against the violent gusts of emotions. How in moments of great triumph and tragedy alike, it shuts and bolts its windows, keeping the littler flame in stillest darkness with nothing but a distant echo of the agitation outside...