Word: misted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mantled in mist, remote from the happy...
...Walter's piano accompaniment, although accurate, completely neglected the musical imagery. Miss Wheeler, for her part, lacks the technique of "French" projection--a sharply defined, almost nasal quality--that the vocal lines demand. She was more than equal to big emotional climaxes, but not to evocations of moonlight and mist...
...then the camera work goes amiss when photographer Joseph Martin covers his lens with a black mist. He has presented at least half the film in almost complete darkness, and at times the scene could as well be a parody of Dante's Inferno. The music too does not seem to fit the action in some places, a little too blaring when Captain Phoebus captures Quasimodo, a little too violiny when Esmeralda prays to the Virgin Mary...
What made Bridges' unionists tighten up was a crowd of a thousand angry A.F.L. men marching through the mist toward Pier 39. They were armed with two-by-fours, baseball bats wrapped in newspaper and lengths of chain. As they approached the pier, the shout went up: "Let's push those goddam Commies off the wharf! Let's get our men off the ship...
...mother of three grown daughters. Her entry was Design for Security, a triangular construction of children clinging together, surrounded by a cloud of light yellows and reds. Explained Artist Engelhard, who has been painting since 1899: "I think it was just a feeling of colors going off into a mist with the children sort of bewildered...