Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiber optics instrument allows heart defects and functions that cannot be detected by x-ray and electrocardiogram, to be seen and filmed, Dr. Gamble said. It makes possible direct visualization of the color, shape, texture, and motion of the heart, Dr. Gamble said, without necessitating surgery...
...first full-length motion picture, Yale film kingpin Robert Edlestein takes firm hold on a familiar visual metaphor, and by applying a vigorous half-twist makes it fresh, contemporary, and personal. The paired figures of the Fair Maiden and the Dark Lady, representing the constructive and destructive principles of sexuality, are as old as American storytelling. In Love and Death in the American Novel, Leslie Fiedler has traced them through historical American fiction, but to a movie audience they are especially familiar as the conventional alternatives offered to the male protagonists of countless Hollywood features. In Sally's Hounds, Edlestein...
...Forest scenes are a good deal more effective than their contrast in the court. The images of corruption are a little thin in content, and a bit arty in directional approach, depending on tricks of slow motion and frozer action. Occasionally in the first act, I wished that Mr. Michaels did not know quite so many modern and effective comic tricks: the wrestling match, for example, loses a good deal of force from being treated as a parody of the old TV "groaners," and the faithful servant Adam (Craig Newenhuyse) is sadly reduced by being directed and played a ridiculous...
...They mix together," volunteers one student. "They expand and contract," says another. How about constructing a model, suggests Teacher Daniel Cieslik: "Should it look like a big wad of cotton? That expands and contracts." By prodding and questioning, Cieslik eventually gets the class to focus on the rapid molecular motion that characterizes gases...
...Gould, who could "smell a nickel under twenty pounds of lard." Through disciplined underplaying, Gitter is tragic in the steamboat scene, and satanic at the end of the second act where, after the success of the gold crash, he drinks a glass of champagne in spine-chilling slow motion...