Word: lingerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quoting from a book. Whereas, the reading time of a book is up to the reader, the viewing time of a film is set by the filmmaker and the images are perceived only as fast or as slowly as the editing permits. Thus, a still, which allows one to linger over a single moment as long as one likes, contradicts the very form of film, as a set of photographs that freezes moments in a life or a society contradicts their form, which is a process, a flow in time; The photographed world stands in the same, essentially inaccurate relation...
...horny youth and a seemingly respectable woman who use their rigs for mutually masturbatory conversations; a radio priest and a radio fascist who employ the air waves to peddle their doctrines. In the classic manner of exploitation pictures, the movie moves fast and speaks bluntly. It does not linger long over anyone's sense of anomie or alienation, but the panel-cartoon style i. effective. It is enough to be made aware of these empty lives...
...Binet (1865-1949) and a rich collection of recent works by the 65-year-old Rouen artist, Albert Malet, who has been called "the last of the Impressionists." The paintings are very different in spirit but alike in quality; this is a small exhibition, but you will want to linger long...
...detached and scary: vast tower blocks, broad relentless avenues, a crushing regimentation. The idealism of the functionalist heroes (Mies especially) has the perfect internal unity of farce. It belonged to the same order of ideas as Albert Speer's designs for Hitler-a totalitarianism of structure. But they linger on paper as the dream architecture of the 20th century. Because these termitaries were never built, they could not be destroyed _ Robert Hughes
...inferences can be drawn therefrom. Yesterday, Senator Percy said, 'I apologize for any anguish I may have caused you over the weekend.' Marvelous! We're playing with a man's character and his decency and reputation here. The charge of being a tax fraud will linger around Mr. Lance for the rest of his life. We can't play so fast and loose with the reputation of any person, because all we take with us to our graves is our reputation. And in some measure, Mr. Lance's has been irrevocably tarnished...