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...traditional technique from glass paintings she had discovered in the Bavarian town of Murnau, where the two eventually settled. It is a difficult medium; details and glazes are brushed on first, the background pigments next. As the colors are enhanced through the refraction of the glass, the lustrous surfaces glow like medieval icons. Kandinsky, a lifelong Eastern Orthodox, instantly took to his new-found art form, even decorating the frames to give his works a handcrafted look...
Somber as it is, Noon Wine induced a special glow, partly because of Director Peckinpah's achievement in adhering to the bluntness of the tragedy, partly because of the ungirdled brilliance of his players. Robards, bedecked with a massive home-grown mustache, spread backwoods brio all over the crusty landscape, and Olivia de Havilland, all frailty and flutteriness, tottered after him without losing a step. Author Porter was astonished that show busi ness could be so kind. "After what they did to my poor Ship of Fools," she said last week, "I was just crushed. I didn...
...Christmas through the Harvard hockey team's December schedule. Coach Cooney Weiland has got the strength, no doubt about it, to run with any team in the country; but breaking it in against every one of the equally improved Eastern powerhouses on foreign turf is enough to dim the glow of Rudolph's nose...
Fahrenheit 451 may not prove to be the flash point of the average moviegoer, but it should work up a gentle glow among the many admirers of Director Truffaut. Filming for the first time in English, he loses nothing but one elegant Gallic pun-in the original scenario the French words for "book men" and "free men" are combined in a portmanteau phrase: les hommes-livres. Filming for the first time in color, he employs it with admirable tact to contrast God's green world with man's grey life...
...squeeze down into the fissure in the rocks the slot of daylight above your head narrows. Finally it blacks out completely, and only your lamp and the lamps in front of you light up the cave. But the muddy walls soak up what little glow there is, so that you can see clearly for only a dozen feet ahead. And the little circle of light shows up only dark brown on the walls and yellow in the puddles of slime. Beyond that, it's just black...