Word: matter-of-fact
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Like Atlantic City. Louis Malle's brilliant expose of dreamers out to make the "big score" in the casino, Lookin' To Get Out takes a low-key, matter-of-fact approach to its subject. Malle used very simple camera angles and clear shots, and never allowed his stars to throw in any histrionics into their understated performances. He had no pretensions about his film, but simply let John Guare's excellent screenplay work itself out before the camera. Ashby, however, can't afford the luxury of sitting back in his director's chair. But the script for Lookin...
Faced with intense competition for traditionally prestigious jobs and an overall economy mired in recession and high interest rates, students are stepping cautiously, weighing the advantages of expensive graduate schools against those of immediate employment and balancing all of that against less-selfish concerns about political issues. Being matter-of-fact about choosing a path beyond the gates of the Yard should not prompt scorn or surprise. "You can't blame someone for wanting to get into a good professional school, to get into a good firm," says Michael T. Anderson '83, a prominent leftist campus organizer. (Please see adjacent...
Famous for his philosophical reflections on the round ball, Lemons was in an uncharacteristically matter-of-fact mood, chatting casually over the phone from his suite at the Parker House...
...most matter-of-fact images is of an orange tree, the fruit dully glistening with the heavy shine of late summer, some leaves almost metallic in density, others a little blurred as the wind stirs them. Into this ecstatically concrete world, a ghost intrudes: the shadow of Atget and his shrouded camera falling across a cabbage plant. Mere shades that whisper "I was here" and so wrench the image away from objectivity toward that sense of mutual dependence between viewer and view that lay at the heart of modernism...
Burnout may be the late 20th century descendant of neurasthenia and the nervous breakdown-the wonderfully matter-of-fact all-purpose periodic collapse that our parents were fond of. Burnout is preeminently the disease of the thwarted; it is a frustration so profound that it exhausts body and morale. Burnout, in advanced states, imposes a fatigue that seems-at the time-a close relative of death. It is the entropy of the other-directed. Even the best worker-especially the best worker-will often, when thwarted, swallow his rage; it then turns into a small private conflagration, the fire...