Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Party, that hour arrived this week in a supremely suitable setting. A ten-mile strip of sand reclaimed from the mangrove swamps and crocodiles a scant half century ago, Miami Beach easily matches anything the G.O.P. Convention can offer in the way of razzmatazz. The swamps have yielded to well-manicured palms and aquamarine swimming pools laid out almost end to end. The crocodiles have given way to a rather more rapacious species - sharks capable of picking an unwary tourist's wallet to the bone in no time. Along the shore, multistoried luxury hotels and condominium apartments march...
Evans was determined that his speech would be different. All too many keynotes, he found, had been "half diatribe, tearing down the opposition party, and half breast beating, or boasting about accomplishments of the past." He had put uncounted hours into the speech since early June, soliciting ideas from a spate of party leaders, trying out phrases in speeches all over the Northwest...
...innocent of murder, and his brilliantly-edited compressed journey through the two houses, shows Chabrol repeating in quick succession the camera movements and color patterns (yellow-browns and wine colors) which have dominated the film; it is as if we are living it again in one and one-half minutes, all its energy compressed into that time, building to the inevitable release of seeing from Paul's point-of-view Audran's red dress against Marnie-green wallpaper. The clash of red and green is foreign to the film's established color scheme, and its psychological impact is cathartic...
...Lover) selfishly destroyed the tense harmony in which she was an outsider. Chris realizes spontaneously that Christine's unrequited love nonetheless was the center of his barren life; Audran screams about money; and Paul, innocent of crime but isolated from his familiar life-style for the first time, struggles half in confusion and half to prevent Chris from murdering Audran on the spot...
...embryonic state this show seems better than average, it has to be because of Annal's magnificent sets, the best since Sean Kenny's for Oliver. Without much bulk, they suggest variety and expanse; without (I suspect) too much money, they suggest a show budgeted well over half a million dollars. The only unfortunate touches are a cartoon-blue ocean background in the lighthouse scene and a sickly dash of pink in the finale...