Word: glossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might be expected for so ruthless a condensation, the final product doesn't contain everything it might. The book's subtitle-"A documentary of courtroom confrontation"-gives a good idea of what's maide Faced with the choice of writing a legal gloss on the trial or piccing together a Whitman's Sampler of courtroom witticisms, the editors have steered loward the sampler. Their purpose, achieved with spectacular success, is to show off the escalating battle between Judge Hoffman and the Conspiracy...
...disks, 3 volumes; $32.78; Seraphim). Gieseking's Mozartian style has slid out of fashion somewhat since these recordings were made in the early 1950s; nowadays he is considered just a bit slick and overrefined. But concert pianists, more conscious of quality than fashion, still justly envy the high gloss and exquisite workmanship of Gieseking. Seraphim's low price and lucid reproduction of the mono-only sound make the release a prize for the economy-minded...
...tribes actions manifested. It was the nude scene in which the cast stands in frontal boldness, asserting the beauty of their bodies and the intangible intimacy they're supposed to feel amongst themselves. And it was the group-groping which was so taken for granted that one might gloss over it. It was the tattooed couple (two guys who seldom unlocked their arms, and were reputedly married). And it was interracial love. And it was the total dissolution of societal boundaries that disunite people, and keep them from friendship and hugging and kissing and loving. And it was Hair...
...Blake as Willie, is the most purely behavioral: it deals with details of movement and stance, with the way he turns his head to look at things, with the way he runs over rocks. Polonsky gives us his characters as he gives us events: coldly, with their conventional Hollywood gloss stripped away...
...vulnerability of Fuller's characters proceeds naturally from their unity, If events affect them at all they must affect them entirely. The full measure of their engagement in society is seen in their insanity, an insanity all the more disturbing for its lack of sentimental gloss. Only Fuller could have gotten away with beginning and ending a B picture with a quote from Euripides. His ability to integrate tough realistic directness with terrifying personal experience makes him one of the few living tragedians. But not one of the practicing tragedians; he can't find backers for any of his recent...