Word: mood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much of his life, Bernard Lamotte has wandered over those same streets and alleys searching for mood and color, sometimes in the company of friendly flics, who took him along on evening patrols through the dark corners of Paris...
...dingy Manhattan bar, some members of the Waugh cult were measuring out their lives with swizzle sticks. They had been badly shaken by Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7, 1946). Unlike Waugh's earlier novels, its irony had not been outrageously funny, and the typical Waugh mood, bright, pardlike and impermeable, had been clouded by a sweat of nostalgic and religious dither. Worse still, Brideshead was the first of Waugh's novels to become a U.S. bestseller. His fans had reluctantly winked at the fact that he is a conservative and a Roman Catholic convert. But popular? No literary...
...time one or two choices out of ten prove worthy, I believe the general selection is justified." That line is no help when they come to the museum's most important pictures, such as the great Guernica mural that shows Picasso in a wilder and more difficult mood than his recent one. Faced with that deliberately and violently ugly protest against a German bombing raid (in the Spanish Civil War), visitors fairly bristle with questions...
...within his chosen limits, Olivier and his associates have done excellently-from grandiose poetic conceptions (e.g., the frightfully amplified heartbeats which introduce the Ghost) to clever little captures of mood (e.g., the cold, discreet clapping of gloved hands which applaud the half-drunken King). The film is built with a fine sense of form and line, and some of the editing worked out very well. Hamlet's big scene with Ophelia (Get thee to a nunnery) comes immediately before, rather than after, his most famous soliloquy (To be, or not to be). Thanks to this transposition...
...elderly (34), impassive Tony Zale, an old foe. They had put on two spine-tingling battles before. Each had knocked out the other once and this was the rubber match. At the bell, Zale advanced stealthily, pawed at Rocky's scowling face like a cat in a tentative mood. Then Zale's left hook exploded on Rocky's jaw. It was a stunner: Rocky's eyes widened and his knees wobbled. With the fight only 30 seconds old, the crowd surged to its feet...