Word: feels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PEOPLE a man speaks with feel his attitude towards them, as he feels theirs, feel it as clearly as if it were spoken forth. They decide unconsciously if they need to defend themselves against him, verbally or physically. Is he a threat? Do they need to armor themselves in principles, in ultimatums? Can they trust him? How far can they trust...
Here is a musical to remember other musicals by. Promises, Promises is slick, amiable and derivative. No playgoer will feel gypped if he attends the show, nor will he miss a thing if he skips...
They may not be real, but they are certainly presences-insistent as memory, disturbing as a sudden hush in a crowded room. Ghostly white, implacably still, they command a whole ambiance around themselves. Step too close to the motel bed with its sprawled, exhausted girl, and you feel as awkward as an intruder. Even the simplest figure-a naked girl slumped on a chair by a window, a woman emerging from a shower stall-seems not just a piece of sculpture but a centerpiece of some invisible living space. The mind's eye creates walls, curtains, furniture that...
Baldwin was desperately optimistic. He could imagine only two possible outcomes to the apocalypse--a fragile birth of brotherhood, or disaster, the Fire. Surely, white men and black men would feel compelled to choose the first alternative...
Presumably we'll begin to feel a few rows closer to Bergman with each film from now on. He's now appealing less to our intellect, more to our emotion. If this is true, it's especially worth going to the Charles and seeing The Dove. (Negatives, the feature with it, you can forget about--though then the short will be costing you about a dime a minute). The Dove is funny and pretentious. It will show you what's to be seen on the surface of "classic" Bergman: what probably won't be seen there much longer...