Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exceptions have mainly been the work of veteran songwriters like Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hammerstein, and Lerner and Lowe. They found it possible in the '50's to treat familiar tales of high society or backstage life which might have spelled doom in the hands of their juniors. Call Me Madam ,Can Can, The Sound of Music and Camelot were triumphs of technical genius, the net products of their creators rather than of their subject material...
...going to a new theater. This week, pending routine board approval, the redhaired, crew-cut campaigner will move one block down on Manhattan's Park Avenue to the headquarters of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Though he will be only one of 24 vice presidents, Ireland will play a familiar role as special assistant to ITT Chairman and President Harold S. Geneen...
...writer of romantic thrillers, England's Mary Stewart, 51, has found a steady audience in the U.S.; her novels have regularly made the bestseller lists. The Gabriel Hounds ranks a cut below her earlier works, but it still offers her familiar, quick, neatly joined narrative and travel-poster background (Lebanon this time). There is also a crumbling castle for just the right touch of the gothic, and an anti-anti-hero who is restless, wealthy, athletic, loves poetry, and drives a white Porsche. With his help, the heroine invades the castle in search of an eccentric great-aunt...
...reason for any given angle, lens, or shadow. Following in the Ford tradition ("When the fact becomes legend, print the legend"--The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), Bonnie and Clyde succeeds magnificently as American mythology, an intelligent treatment of sensitivity and violence, social and sexual impotence, within a familiar if abstracted social context. Bonnie and Clyde's merits have been much-discussed, and I can only state, with rank admiration, how beautifully wrought the film is: in the choices Peen has made in determining color and visual style, in the script construction and dialogue idiom, and in the consistently excellent...
...sense of style, and Losey does not always get a firm grip on the subtle and elusive screenplay. Often, the ideas are better on paper than they are in the finished film (Dirk Bogarde's liaison with ex-girlfriend Delphine Seyrig), and Accident falls flattest when Losey injects familiar notes of high Baroque into Pinter's version of the groves of academe. In fact, Losey is more comfortable with high baroque; Eva and Modesty Blaise, though self-conscious and dramatically weak, come close to Losey at his strongest and most asured in his choice of camera angel, subject, and movement...