Word: homeyness
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...color and cold, there are painterly compositions, off-focus shots, bifocal shots and all sorts of imaginative camera stunts. The most ambitious filmic effect does not really come off. Brook tries to combine highly stylized segments, almost like animated Japanese prints, with segments that are strictly naturalistic in a homey medieval vein. In watching these shifts, the viewer can only fail to pay full attention to what Shakespeare is saying. This is the basic problem of film v. theater. The film's priority is always the visual image, to which the word is subordinated. But on the stage...
...millions of white Americans, there is a new "yellow peril" on the nation's streets and highways this fall. It consists of caravans of that familiar homey vehicle, the yellow school bus. This year, however, the school bus has become a symbol of one of the most controversial developments in American life: the forced transportation of children away from neighborhood schools to distant classrooms, in obedience to court-ordered desegregation plans...
Some cities, including Boston, Philadelphia and New York, built almshouses for the indigent, but they were not institutions in the 19th and 20th century sense. In structure and routine, they were extensions of the colonial family. Even jails for debtors or those awaiting trial were homey places. Escapes were so frequent that some towns held the jailer responsible for the debts of an escaped prisoner...
...back on the nation's newsstands this week as a $1-a-copy quarterly. Antique is more accurate, right down to the custom re-created headline type used by the Post in the 1930s and '40s. In format and much of its content, this is the homey, comfortable, non-controversial old Post of Ben Hibbs, not the later, slicker version which piled up some $500 million in libel suits as a result of its "sophisticated muckraking" and finally perished in 1969 from a combination of advertising atrophy and high-circulation pressure...
...clock-like regularity which only serves to emphasize the problems of a play that consists of truncated dialogues. Each scene transition has the actors shout and bustle, only to freeze in position as the lights come up for the next scene. During most scenes, one character mimes something "homey," like folding laundry or cooking pot roast, as the other sits nearby and philosophizes. The widening emotional gap that mars the production is caused by this deadening regularity of style. The vignette approach is good for portraying isolated events in the lives of almost any number of people; when those lives...