Word: hindenburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point about violence is not so much that it breeds violence-though that is probably true-but that it totally desensitizes viciousness, brutality, murder, death so that we no longer actively feel the pains of the victim or suffer for the mourners or feel their grief. When the Hindenburg blew up, the reporter broke down on the radio. I can't imagine anything like that happening today. I imagine a detached, calm description of the ship going up in flames: "I do believe there will be no survivors." We have become desensitized to things that are usually part...
...Crimson split its season series with the worst teams the Ivy League has to offer--Brown, Yale, Columbia and Cornell--not exactly something to write home about. In addition, it went 1-1 against Boston College, a squad whose season paralleled the history of the Hindenburg...
...Hindenburg. As Frank Rich said, if someone spent $15 million to produce this film someone else made off with a haul. The characterizations are so brief as to be virtually non-existent, and George C. Scott hardly has any Scottish lines, much less scenes. The last twenty minutes of disaster footage are okay, but not fantastic. The famous live broadcast by a radio newsman captures the essence of the film in around 30 seconds...
...Hindenburg contains many beautiful, technically ingenious shots showing a model of the great airship sailing majestically through all sorts of weather and cloud conditions. It also contains many lovingly detailed re-creations of the craft's interior-the elegantly appointed public rooms, the bridge, the 804-ft.-long canvas hull where the volatile hydrogen that kept the thing afloat was stored...
...Hindenburg's destruction. This is rather artfully managed through a blending of newsreel footage and well-matched black-and-white fictional material showing what happened to the movie's characters during the holocaust. Again, however, technique not drama holds...