Word: greyingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the barbed wire is gone, and the ugly grey cinder blocks are rapidly giving way to trim slabs of concrete. Just a few feet away, workmen are busily dismantling the forbidding old wooden watchtowers and replacing them with neat rectangular structures that look more like mountaintop tourist lookouts than machine-gun nests. At first glance, the scene is strangely placid; Western visitors can hardly believe that they are at the edge of Berlin's infamous Wall...
...most contentious book of the season has a nowhere plot, grey characters, and not even the beginnings of a bedroom scene. It certainly will be on nobody's Christmas list, except perhaps that of the Soviet embassy, whose operatives religiously study it as the best single guideline to U.S. frustrations, strengths and dreams. This remarkable volume is the federal budget (478 pages; Government Printing Office; $1.50), and right now it is a lively subject of national debate and confusion. Practically everybody agrees that the federal budget is bloated, but practically nobody can agree on just where...
...minutely supervised the spare, expressionistic sets designed by German-born Günther Schneider-Siemssen, a longtime Von Karajan protégé. The extraordinary lighting design, ranging for the most part from grey to basic black, was Von Karajan's own. The cast was handpicked, and the hand was his. He guided the Met's orchestra through what amounted to a graduate seminar on Wagnerian sonority, galvanizing that frequently scraggly ensemble into a pliant, rich tonal fabric...
...treat the drug experience in terms of warped reality, of optically twisted images and superimposed patterns of color, Rooks and Frank are more concerned with the relationship between drugged and normal perception. Harwick, on Peyote, says, "I saw a yellow circle of light . . ." and Rooks cuts to a grey sky with an optically created circle of light in the middle of the frame. Through focus changes, we see at the very end of the shot that the circle of light is, in fact, a sunset. Through camerawork, then, we discern both the object and the drugged interpretation of the object...
When John O'Hara drove up to Random House's Italian Renaissance parking lot in his grey Rolls-Royce and turned over his latest instant novel, he delivered the goods once more. The Instrument ranks considerably below the early and best O'Hara, but it is an effective short novel, cynical beyond redemption, pertinent as a suicide note...