Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Activities like these sometimes draw the scorn of those who dwell on the flaws of American society. But these civic efforts are the grace notes of any community...
...unwittingly scheduled on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing-so many Masses that the congress's congregations used 1,700,000 Communion wafers. Dave Brubeck and Ella Fitzgerald offered religious jazz, the Dance Theater of Harlem turned to religious choreography, and Monaco's Prince Rainier and Princess Grace addressed a "family life" conference...
What can be said is that Brian de Palma has made an exquisite entertainment that sends one back to Hitchcock, the masterly Vertigo in particular, for comparison. Obsession is a triumph of style over substance. Vilmos Zsigmond's camera, constantly on the move with a sinuous grace, is romantic in a manner seldom seen now in the movies. The late Bernard Herrmann's score, like the many he did for Hitchcock and Welles, is an instrument of flight, lifting the viewer up and over such resistance as he may have to the movie's patent improbability...
MARTHA GRAHAM SWIRLS towards the camera, her body twisted into an impossible arc of grace, seeming acres of white fabric billowing behind her. Gertrude Stein, draped in heavy black velvet, stares at the camera with a superior mixture of anger and amusement. Edna St. Vincent Millay struts militantly right up to the camera, clutching a placard that says "American Honor Dies With Sacco and Vanzetti!" Georgia O'Keefe will not look at the camera--she gazes instead at the dry colorless earth which stretches for miles in all directions...
...Mason upheld the standards of Olympic amateurism, trilling things like "Look at that amplitude," without defining it. But other "expert" commentators came through admirably. Ken Sitzberger clearly distinguished the great dives from the merely good ones; Bill Russell delivered intelligent and humane analyses of the basketball games with casual grace; and Marty Liquori, drawing on a decade of running experience, alerted viewers to the explosive potential of Cuba's all but unknown Alberto Juantorena before he won the 800-meter race...