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...argument which cuts both ways, since A's consequent acts also appear to lack immediate motivation. As with Out of It, the direction is geared to producing solid characterizations, visuals be damned. But there is also something enervating about the film, just as sure as there is a greenish-gray pall which dominates its atmosphere. It's as if Williams finds his own sense of craftsmanship dispiriting, and thus sets out to follow his intellect rather than be led by real inspiration...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Grass, Acid, Talent... | 2/8/1972 | See Source »

...chief restorer, Hubert von Sonnenburg, has wrought some minor miracles. He cleaned off the aging varnish, discovering a new richness of skin tones, transforming Juan's lace collar to a blazing white, and revealing the background as a rich orchestration of grays rather than the rather dim greenish cast it had had. More important, he found that a 1½ in. margin at the top and one of 2⅛ in. at the right side had been folded under for framing purposes some time in the 19th century. With the canvas restored to its original size, the figure occupies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Secret Choice | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

Chlorosis, the virginal love sickness that produced a greenish pallor in young girls suffering the pangs of unrequited love, passed out of medical terminology when it was discovered to be nothing more than iron-deficiency anemia. Febricula, a "little fever" that lingered in some medical texts until 1947, was once thought to be caused by stale beer, foul odors and sewer gases. It has since been identified as a symptom of a variety of other-and more easily identified-viral infections of the respiratory tract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Defunct Diseases | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

Merilee took some hard rolls from the secret recesses of her huipil and then brought from the TR a can clearly labeled TRANSMISSION OIL. She spread the rolls with a clear greenish substance, handed one to Sam and bit into the other herself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...setting is a film in itself. Shot in grainy-greenish color, to a soundtrack of dirgeful medieval music, the Icelandic countryside (sheets of solid lava, mist rising from craggy fields) seems like another planet. Maybe it is--but then the whole picture harks back to an idea of man light-years away from...

Author: By David W. Boorstin, | Title: Hagbard and Signe | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

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