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Barrault borrowed heavily from movie technique. Sets faded and others appeared with dreamlike ease and speed. Lights drifted, camera-like, from one scene to the next. Between some scenes, stagehands rearranged props in full view of the audience. To heighten the unreality, Barrault frequently used pantomime with a symbolic abstraction that approached ballet...
These policies, characterized by the rebuilding of Germany, will not only heighten friction between the united States and Russia, and move us further down the road to eventual war; it will also cost us the friendship of the peoples of Europe, who will be given every reason to believe the Soviet charges against us," he said...
...Warsaw, at 14. Leneman's parents had taken away his brushes to make the boy spend more time at his books, but they forgot to take away his paints. So Leneman started smearing his inspirations directly on the canvas; daubing, lumping, clutching, rubbing and pinching to heighten the drama. Then, in Palestine and Paris, he brought finger-painting to a fine pitch. Later he taught art in Venezuela and U.S. Army hospitals...
...gusty wind, sweeping up from the Banat plain across the Yugoslav frontier, seemed to heighten the nervous tension in the town. It snapped at the shawls and embroidered blouses of the peasants, sent newspapers and political handbills scurrying around the huge square in clouds of dust. Slowly, the crowd gathered around the oldfashioned, three-storied brownstone hotel at the corner of the square. From windows the loudspeakers monotonously blared out the announcement: "At 6 o'clock, a meeting of the Freedom Party...
...paper, the story of "It's a Wonderful Life" might appeal to pulp-magazine addicts and people who don't know the truth about Santa Claus. On paper, it would hardly suggest to a normal mind that its transformation into movie form could do anything but heighten to the point of nausea its sentimental hokum and turn-of-the-century American idealism. On the screen, however, it becomes as entertaining, as moving, as funny and sad--in short, as fine a picture as ever came out of Hollywood...