Word: inwardness
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...floor. God knows the bedroom scene between power-crazed Ingrid Thulin and her contrite Bogarde employs dialogue no real person ever uttered. Visconti offers us human passions and errors on a grander scale than the realistic. Thus his blocking of scenes, which is heavy and slow, focuses dramatic energy inward onto the relationships of the Essenbeck family. Visconti's mise-en-scene is equally grandiose, incorporating massive interiors and immense spaces. It helps integrate the characters into one pattern of contrary emotional drives. The film's confinement within one mansion becomes the best way to maintain intense and unified oppositions...
...fight, using bulldozers like bazookas . . . starring Victor Mature." In the closing footage, the last movie announced is "M.A.S.H. . . . follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons snatching laughs and loves between amputations and penicillin. . . starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould." And so the movie, having attacked all else, turn inward and takes its own life...
forgets what he should have kept from his Communist past-the sense of the concrete- and keeps what he should have forgotten- the disjunction between the inward and the external. ("Humanism and Terro...
...despite the perhaps temporary inward withdrawal of allegiance to the flag of the Republic on the part of some black militants and other alienated groups, despite the Vietcong flags of some of our fellow resisters (who for their part of overtly anti-establishment and have lost hope for America except through revolution), despite the direct appeal to us and felicitation on our activities over the head of our government from Hanoi and the NLF, we will not waver in our conviction that we rightly march under those same three banners that preceded the mule-drawn cortege in Montgomery: under...
...subtler, more sophisticated and selective form of exerting American influence. One of the dominant clichés of the late '60s-about America not being the policeman of the world-will have proved highly useful if U.S. goals abroad become more realistic. Moreover, an American inward-turning to urgent domestic problems could be entirely healthy for U.S. foreign policy. Only by drastically improving its own society will the U.S. be able to maintain its position and power in the world...