Word: element
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most personal element of Edlestein's shooting style is his use of light to convey subtle moods. Especially impressive are the exterior sequences involving Sally and John, typically shot on the edge of overexposure, with a harsh, grainy film texture; the domestic interiors featuring John and Kate are richly and softly shadowed, a heavy dependence placed on natural light sources...
Youth in Command. The most visual, persistent and audacious element of the new fashions is the miniskirt. In the three years since it made its first real appearance in small, offbeat boutiques and far-out discotheques, it has surged onto the campuses, into offices, out on the avenue anywhere at all that youth defiantly chooses to show its colors. By general agreement, a true mini rises to just mid-thigh. But with dresses growing shorter by the season, whole new categories have had to be advanced. "Now," notes one San Francisco designer, "there is the micromini, the micro-micro...
Confirmation Flunked. There was an element of incongruity in their relationship. Bonhoeffer was a mature intellectual with a passionate commitment both to Christian theology and the anti-Nazi underground; Maria, half his age, had no zest for either theology or politics. The two first met in 1936; Bonhoeffer was 30, she was twelve. At the time, he was operating an underground seminary for anti-Nazi divinity students in Finkenwalde; Maria, member of an aristocratic, landed family, was living nearby with her grandmother, who asked Bonhoeffer to include the girl in a confirmation class for Maria's older brother...
...Once Proud Workshop. How did Britain, where the Industrial Revolution was born, fall to such a beggar's estate among the industrial nations of the world? There is scarcely a segment of British society or an element of British tradition that is not in some way responsible for the impoverishment of the once proud workshop of the world...
...could not help but noitice an element of vulgarity in Adams's treatment of the music. Both the Haydn and the Mozart lacked the classical elegance that is so important in works of that period. In the Milhaud Adams adopted a grinding, spread-kneed approach and a style of rhythmic emphasis that owed more to Motown than nineteen-twenties jazz...