Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have thought up the settings for the drunken brawl and the killing of Roderigo. Welles' direction and camera work are virtuosic throughout: his untiring inventiveness is ever apparent; and he is a master of black-and-white, from a close-up of part of a white robe through all manner of chiaroscuro to a totally blackened screen. Indeed, so prolific are his ideas that some sequences of camera angles and shots speed by too rapidly. And who else would have dared to have Othello's final speech delivered straight upwards by a disservered head? The whole visual treatment, furthermore...
...have been drafted, but he said "that time has gone by. New rulings have gone into effect which make such men exempt from the draft. With these new rulings, the Committee has little more use. However, I do not like the idea of it ending its existence in this manner...
David Wayne tries to restore some of the whimsey which Uncle Daniel lost in the transition from the short story to the play. He acts with an abandon very funny to watch, adopting a southern accent just sugary enough to be humorous without becoming cloying. His manner is full of comical inventions, except for some distracting gestures. But even Wayne, for all his talent, cannot make Daniel Ponder anything more than a pitiful, lost child...
...Author Ives gives a clue to her brother's political personality. Despite the devotion he inspires in those near him, the book once more conveys his unhappy faculty of creating distrust in the common man he seeks to champion. The cause is, perhaps, less his often-criticized highbrow manner than a certain remoteness springing from that remarkably sheltered and unruffled life. It was a life that appears today somehow divorced from a reality larger than family, Illinois or Princeton...
Tebaldi excells in the delicate spinning out of a phrase with a lovely, floating mezza-voce (half-voice). She loves to linger over each tone color much in the manner of the tenor Gigli. There is no doubt that she is a true diva; even her faults are majestic. Her voice is accustomed to soaring over an orchestra, and the bare accompaniment of a piano could not hide her steely, shrill quality at full voice, another common trait of Italian sopranos...