Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delicate Balance. On the day of the successful rendezvous, however, the fog that had shrouded Cape Kennedy during the night-and the cloud that had hovered over Gemini 6 even longer -suddenly blew away. "For the third time, go," exulted Schirra just before the Titan II left the pad in a launch that was as close to perfect as any in all the Cape's history...
...clear, brisk autumn day in London, but much of the country shivered in fog and freezing mist. As darkness fell, housewives turned on their lights and electric heaters, started brewing tea and cooking dinner on electric stoves, snapped on the telly. Then suddenly, bang on 5 o'clock, it was New York all over again. The lights went...
After a few more words--"I loved the blackout," she said. "It was beautiful and mysterious"--I left. It was twilight, and the Radcliffe quad was covered with ground fog. One of the street lights was very strange. It blinked on and off, on and off, like the light on a Christmas tree...
Though "based on" Macbeth, Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood retains only the psychology and basic plot. Gone is the poetry (at least for someone following the subtitles, which frequently achieve complete unintelligibility) and the primitive Scottish setting (replaced by medieval Japan, with its ritual, mounted warriors, and fog-shrouded plains). Throne of Blood--the only other title that the distributors came up with was the equally unhappy Castle of the Spider's Web--may well be closer to a redramatization of Holinshed than an adaptation of Shakespeare. But it is, however classified, a stunningly effective work...
...Shakespeare's. Even with a normal-size screen, the camera, rarely moving in for a close-up or even a medium shot, tracks and frames the characters for a succession of strikingly beautiful compositions. And Kurosawa's time dilation--Macbeth and Banquo galloping endlessly in and out of the fog, or Duncan's pallbearers marching heavily up to the gates of his castle--shows the power that Hollywood in catering to the shortest common attention span, has sacrificed...