Word: fogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schell is fatally dependent on fog machines for atmosphere, never makes a simple cut when he can use a stately and portentous camera movement. He loves strange visual juxtapositions - a leopard roaming around a mansion or a violinist sawing away under a tree in a meadow - because jarring imagery, though it conveys no useful informa tion, is fondly believed to wow the impressionable...
...Bears may be terrible, but they are enthusiastic. Misfits all, playing-even miserably-gives them a shot at self-respect. Buttermaker considers this and, out of his beery fog, figures the kids deserve a break. His motives are not entirely altruistic, however. On a rival team, there is a gung-ho, supercilious coach (well played by Vic Morrow), and Buttermaker hates his guts...
...physical environment by an incredible variety of textures, colors, sensations and gestures that are generated in the process of daily living. Naturally, all attempts at conceptually simplifying, let alone resolving the profusion of currents and conflicts in Indian life seem destined for failure. And yet, occasionally the fog lifts, and it is possible to perceive in India the manifestation of only one essential division; a division that places on one side an India that inhabits a deep interior out of which only occasional inquisitive forays are made. An immensely powerful tradition, a complete spiritual self-sufficiency, a timelessness...
...himself. In 1917 he formed his own plane-manufacturing company, eventually selling some 300 amphibian biplanes and becoming a millionaire in the process. In his 1935 book, Our Wings Grow Faster, Loening predicted that "at 500 m.p.h. 50,000 ft. above the ocean . . . far above storms or ice or fog . . . we will cross from New York to London in six hours." He lived to see that prophecy improved on with the SST. But in his later years he urged less emphasis on speed and more on vertical-takeoff planes, which could cut travel time by operating from airports near city...
THEY STEPPED OUT of Jefferson Hall into the fog, dazed and crick-necked. The midyear examination was over and they had made it halfway through Economics 10, Harvard's most popular course. In the eerie, unseasonal mist, indifference curves and isocosts danced before them. Maybe "popular" is the wrong word...