Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silence to make the same point. "People like Barry are successful because they are not obvious-they don't announce themselves," says Kubrick. So it is mainly by the look in Ryan O'Neal's eyes-a sharp glint when he spies the main chance, a gaze of hurt befuddlement when things go awry-that we understand Barry's motives. And since he cannot see his own face, we can be certain he is not aware of these self-betrayals. According to Kubrick, Barry's silence also implies that "he is not very bright...
...occasion Caldwell will tell the last man out of the theater to lock her in, then gaze for hours at the stage (and boxes, which she regularly uses as an extension of the stage), trying to figure out a way to adjust that small rectangle to her large vision. She has been known to doze off-one time lying in a heap of curtains in an aisle -and be ready to go the next morning...
...sometimes people don't seem to understand that. Actually Leder's goals as a priest and as a painter are practically identical, and in his own mind, at least, he has it all worked out quite well. "I strive," he says, "for communication with the transcendant." His gaze drifts out past his easel again, over the rooftops to the hills of Watertown. "I really believe that...
...strep germ and street bully in The Bronx. He is also a born survivor, protected by a warm and lively Orthodox Jewish family, and his narrative's interest turns not so much on whether David will escape his perils as on what he perceives with his wonderfully penetrating gaze. He sees, before anyone teaches him, the letters of two alphabets, Hebrew and English, and the intricate manner in which they relate. He sees his father, first as a vigorous, powerful man, respected by other Polish immigrants as the onetime leader of a guerrilla band in Galicia; then numbed...
...symbolically thrust a stake through a skinned rabbit, the comedy is dissipated. Using the graceful closeups which distinguish her style, Wertmuller evokes the intensity and eroticism of a great love affair so subtly and effectively as to make Last Tango in Paris seem like a mouthwash commercial. The subjective gaze of the camera and the expressive interaction of the actors combine to compel the audience to identify strongly with the characters, men with Gennarino and women with Raffaella. In fact, the emotional force of the relationship juxtaposed with the tranquil natural beauty of the island is so powerful that even...