Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odyssey of cockney mechanic Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) and missionary Rose (Katharine Hepburn) down uncharted African waters suggests tense comedy-melodrama: they must, after all, evade rifle fire, skirt rapids, fix boilers, swat flies, brave swamps, remove leeches, blow up German cruisers, and fall in love. Regardless, Huston injects the action with mechanical uncaring: Allnut and Rose talk genially in medium close shot, one of them looks off-screen, says "Look!", and Huston cuts to what they see; he resorts to this lethargic montage in introducing enemy troops, the fort, all rapids, and the boat Louisa. The repetition of dramatic technique...
...such major problems as a stagnant economy, overpopulation, food shortages and the disintegration of her own Congress Party, would dearly have loved to sidestep the entire issue. In today's India, however, the absurd and obscure seem frequently to become major affairs of state. Once they got a fix on the island, the opposition parties, led by the nationalist Jana Sangh, demanded that Indira send troops and warships to hold all 160 acres of it for India...
Breathtaking Regularity. Getting a good fix on one of the signals, the astronomers calculated that it came from an object no more than 4,000 miles in diameter-about half the size of the earth-that was no more than a neighborly 200 light-years away. The signals occurred with breathtaking regularity, one every 1.337 seconds. "Our first thought," says Radio Astronomer Martin Ryle, director of the Mullard Observatory, "was that this was another intelligence trying to contact...
...long periods of time. This juxtaposition of speed and deliberation gives the dream that jagged pace which we recall in first waking moments. Desire, I have argued, has speed. Within each scene, however, Hunter achieves slowness by letting the camera, as if two joints high, revel in the immediate, fix joyfully on shapes, colors, a green stick of incense, a miniature toy horse on wheels, the rise of bubbles in near boiling water...
...this point the case-aides need to have explained to them that they are important, that the patients have been rejecting them, lying to them, or whatever. And about this time a depressed mood settles over the group. They have discovered that they're not going to fix the patients in 12 or 16 or 18 visits once a week. Here the group really comes to grips with itself. Is it going to be a group? Is it going to survive this realization, this destruction? How meaningful is it? Why did they get into this thing? It's a difficult...