Word: glitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observation. But in Carnal Knowledge, their vision is scan deep. Save at the beginning, men and women address one another and are treated as mere organs. Coupling is viewed with righteous distaste. Sex, though essentially joyless as practiced by these characters, must be followed by punishment. The film does glitter with explicit wit, but far too often it is reduced to attitudes posing as people, glimpses pretending to be insights...
...device serves two functions. First, it gives Shelter an intellectual gloss: Mick or Keith's contemplation suggests the burden of self-consciousness, a filmed discourse on the relation of self to representation, etc., etc. Naturally this is all glitter; what such a schema really does here is allow the filmmakers to cut another slam-bang rock 'n' roll number in every four or five minutes without risking a stylistic break. That way the sequences of Melvin Belli negotiating for the Stones, virtually the only explanation tendered in the entire film concerning who is responsible for what, are not permitted...
Then, behind a procession of aides and bodyguards, came Heath and Pompidou, walking in step into the gilt and crystal glitter of the ballroom. Pompidou signaled Heath to precede him into the room. The two men seated themselves in Louis XIV armchairs on a raised dais, with Heath at the President's right...
...birds in the flock," Art Critic Thomas B. Hess recently observed, "Liberman is the rarest." It is a rare bird indeed that he resembles: the eye's moist, inquisitive glitter; the sharp ruffle of conversational feathers; the exact poise...
Later, during lengthy interviews with MacGraw and her husband in Manhattan, Cronin was further impressed, as was Researcher Michele Whitney, by Ali's essential simplicity and lack of glitter, the Teddy bears she adores, the wonderful junk that she collects-such things as silver-and-gold fans inscribed "Souvenir of the 1897 Exposition." To Film Critic Stefan Kanfer, who has been following Ali's career since she first appeared in Goodbye Columbus, her sudden leap to stardom is a classic example of "cinema inventing its own faces. When it needed the gritty reflection of urban reality, it found...