Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current Loeb production of War and Peace, the trembling of Russian society in the face of the Napoleonic Wars is staged in the historian's limbo of order and chaos, at the interface of the sloping stage of destiny and the flat, eye-level platform of action. But whereas Tolstoy flashed light on the everyday existence of ordinary men and women, what drama there is in the adaptation, first performed in 1955 in Berlin, must be released in a series of stunning special effects simulating the horrors of war from above. The peculiar predicament of characters adhering fiercely to free...
...robs a bank with a bandage on his nose and a single bullet in his gun, Goretta raises questions about the tenuous nature of our expectations, the impossibility of accomplishment in a money-oriented world, the reasons why we love. The film is quiet and subtle, shot in flat monotones of green and brown. It is unpretentious, yet not dull, and very intelligent...
STANDARD DEDUCTIONS. The Finance Committee voted for a flat standard deduction of $2,200 for single taxpayers, $3,200 for married couples (under present law, the deduction ranges from $1,700 to $2,400 for singles, $2,100 to $2,800 for the married). The House had set deductions of $2,400 for the single, $3,000 for couples. That, however, could have increased the so-called marriage penalty: two people living together could claim deductions totaling $4,800, while if they married and filed a joint return they would be held to $3,000. Long would not hear...
Novelists who have trained as journalists can usually be identified by their lack of plumage. There is something about trying to interpret the world in narrow columns that keeps the feathers compact and flat. Sentences tend to dart rather than gyrate. Effects are sought with tone and timing; ironies are implied, not spelled out. Anyone who has followed Joan Didion's career as a magazine writer can easily discern the newsprint between her fine lines. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of her best magazine work, brought wide praise in 1968. With the publication of her novel Play...
Home Cooking. Instantly, of course, everyone sets about trying to exploit his family. The press invades the Kusters' modest flat, pretending sympathy while searching for sensation. This they find easily by twisting innocent responses to their queries into a portrait of the late Kusters as a drunken brute...