Word: moods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sleep. Director Howard Hawks and his writers (including William Faulkner) claimed they couldn't follow the plot of Raymond Chandler's detective novel. In any case, they turned Detective Phillip Marlowe into Humphrey Bogart yet still managed to retain large chunks of snappy Chandler dialogue. Watch this movie for mood and style, not plot, and you'll find it one of Bogart and Bacall's very best...
...catch was a small rockfish landed by a U.S. protocol officer. The next day, when Nixon received him at the White House, Brandt complained: "There is only one fish in the Chesapeake Bay." Nixon, who had delivered his traumatic Watergate speech the night before, was in an effusive, bantering mood. To the delight of photographers, Nixon took Brandt by the arm several times to change his position "so we will have very good pictures...
...income and educational level saw the dishonest versions. Both sets of commercials used the same actors, and except for the misleading bits, the same language. Yet in four of the six tests, the cheating commercial placed well ahead of the honest promotion in coaxing the audience into a buying mood...
Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee, recalling the mood while his paper was being denounced, says: "Talk about minefields! One major slip in this story would have destroyed us. We were playing with the entire well-being of the Post company." While that statement contains a touch of hyperbole, it does reflect the sense of vulnerability many newsmen felt while the "major media" were under attack. Such apprehension has been replaced by a feeling of vindication; the traditional stance of the press in American society-rambunctious, independent, skeptical-has been proved valid again. There were two other, more specific lessons...
...this fruitless ambiguity is made worse by the realistic tone of the narration, which is totally at odds with the content. George Orwell persuades us easily in Animal Farm that beasts talk, but Berger fails to establish a mood in which it is believable that larger and stronger men cower before swaggering women, and that an entire society has lost all knowledge of normal...