Word: levels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...count me out. Hitchcock wouldn't put his name anywhere near junk like Rosemary's Baby. Generalizing shamelessly, Hitchcock films make important, often positive, statements about a wide range of human problems. Polanski's films exist at best in tortured ambiguity and increasingly are sloppy stylistic exercises in low-level suspense mechanics...
...some top-level wrangling with Pinar Gote, who has a monopoly over travel to the Galapagos, and two high Ecuadoran Air Force officers, produced a viable compromise. Sulloway credited an introductory letter from President Pusey and the energetic intervention of an American working for the Ecuadoran National Tourist Agency with breaking the deadlock...
...developed by 15th century draftsmen, perspective is a set of rules that enables the artist to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane by making his structural lines converge at an imaginary "vanishing point" on an imaginary horizon at the viewer's eye level...
...chronology begins with his imprisonment for pacifism in England during World War I, a subject about which he is willing to jest: "My fellow prisoners seemed to me in no way morally inferior to the rest of the population, though they were on the whole slightly below the usual level of intelligence, as was shown by their having been caught." It ends with his virtual banishment from American academia during World War II, when C.C.N.Y. reneged on its commitment to him because of his reputed permissive attitudes about sex. This Russell finds no laughing matter: "The Government of New York...
...writer's block. He conceived of an organic body of work to be called The Voyage That Never Ends, at the heart of which would rest his one masterpiece, Under the Volcano (1947). That novel-perhaps the only story of an alcoholic ever to succeed at the level of tragedy rather than self-pity -revealed in Lowry a dark, obsessive genius that kept struggling for light. It never shone fully in his two other novels (Ultramarine, Lunar Caustic), his poems, or in the short stories (Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place) that up to now have...