Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West with a new play called "The Big Knife." With it, he takes some vicious slashes at the guts of his former paymasters. He says nothing new, but he has not lost his touch in saying it in a startling way. Every Odets line has the impact, and sometimes the serewiness, of a tabloid headline. Perhaps his characters aren't real. Perhaps they are. Clifford Odets is real. He is the star of the show...
...relapsed into the kind of tourism that is apparently inevitable with first visitors to New York. "No matter how many times you have seen it in pictures," he said, "nothing can prepare you for the sudden sight of the skyscrapers as the ship moves up the harbor. Its impact is terrific and unique." So saying, he was off to see the town-especially Wall Street, which reminded him of London's Lombard Street. He returned with cheering news for New Yorkers, saying he had found them "unusually smiling and helpful in a jolly...
...feature message, the film even contrives an ending in a happy, hopeful vein. At no point does it give its central anti-war theme the emotional contagion that the same message got in The Search or the Italian-made Shoeshine, both of which dealt movingly with war's impact on children by simply telling a straight story honestly...
...pictures. Since Matisse cannot work for long on his feet, he will be unable to paint the pictures on the walls directly, plans to do them on tile which will afterward be baked and placed in position. He hopes that the painting will have the same sort of impact that he himself once received from Giotto's frescoes at Padua...
...Victors-it is as charged with ideas as with harsh melodrama. The fault, in fact, lies just that way-in a too-muchness of everything that becomes a form of melodrama in itself. In piling up too many motives, in piling on too much horror, the play loses its impact. The characters get to be much less human beings than mere Existencils; the ideas lack value because Sartre insists on using them as bombs rather than light bulbs. For all its intellectualism, The Victors is so crammed to the brim with lurid scenes and dated dramaturgy that there...