Word: heightenings
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...Veteran, hovers on the edge of abstraction, just as the old soldier himself hovers on the edge of death. In all the other paintings, Rivers has already become bored with subject matter. In a painting called United Nations, he uses stenciled letters, suggesting country-identifying name plates, to heighten the contrast of readymade reality and pure imagination. His Buick Painting with P is not so much a picture of the rear end of a car as a study in force...
...were, between perspectives-years after the scarehead moment of horror, when anguish nullifies distance, and too soon for historical tragedy, when art provides it. But form and perspective apart, The Wall is simply not well enough written. Adapter Millard Lampell gets no leverage into language; his words do not heighten or deepen or darken, are never laconic or poetic or terrible. Rather than quivering with a Whitmanesque "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there." Lampell's lines come all too close to the sentimen tal and the stagy. The Wall is most effective-is indeed...
While Mon Petit may play with reality, the audience remains aware that this is fiction, even surrealistic fiction. To heighten this effect, Kautner limits his palette so that orange (the oranges), black (the sophisticates), white (our boy and girl), and grey (the edifices of Paris) predominate. And, of course, the characters seem too attractive to be realistic. Horst Bucholz especially stands out as a sort of Jimmy Dean for the quality trade...
...reacting to each other with a sensitivity that escapes the impersonality of the screen. Their love affair seems dramatically as well as thematically plausible. Heather Sears, cast as the daughter of the local power, employs her bland manner with purpose. Her pleasant, but empty face, and her unobtrusiveness, admirably heighten her own meaningless relationship to Harvey. Knowing that her role is one of the pawn, she has enough sense not to turn it into a tour de force performance...
Yovicsin also felt that training meals are a good place for the athletes to meet while the are off the field. "The boys benefit greatly from talking over their mutual problems at the tables. These meals heighten the morale and the mental state of the player," he said...