Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of affection and attention on each other that no one else could ever devote to them. That is no small part of the reason Wedding in Blood seems so overwrought, without the tension or the wit that marks Chabrol's best work. He adds, almost desperately, an echo of Greek tragedy in the plot's bleak resolution, but this only serves to make the film portentous. It lurches ahead in predictable little bursts of motion, like a trolley on old tracks...
...physical and emotional deterioration. Conversely, work after age 65 can improve life expectancy, increase physical and emotional stamina, even boost earning power. "I'm not built for retirement," declares Weisbrod flatly. "I don't want to sit on a park bench." Thousands of aged Americans would probably echo that sentiment...
Terse Shapes. The word primitive simply evaporates in the presence of a work like the Quimbaya pectoral (see color page) with its strange deity, man-bodied and bird-beaked, whose bifurcated wings of head dress echo the sweep of the gold blade beneath his feet. The sharpness of execution - perfect corrugated threads lying in their parallel curves, the sense of exacting formal detail at every part of the design - is formidable. Indeed, the goldworking cultures that flourished in the isolated river valleys of western Colombia from the end of the 1st millennium B.C. - Quimbaya and Tairona, Tolima and Muisca, Narino...
Color attacks us from all angles. It mixes up perceptions with optical illusions; it stops cars; it provokes prejudice; sometimes it even inspires patriotism. But throughout the struggle to define it echo the words of an obscure fifth-century B.C. Greek philosopher who said, "By convention there is color, but in reality there are atoms and space...
...verse. "'Lord Weary's Castle' was clearly a religious book of verse, whereas his current books are not," Hecht said yesterday. "But his verse has a sense of continuity. It is an inquisition into himself, a painful and self-defeating questioning of the self which seems to echo the life of society in general...