Word: nightmarish
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...story is obscured by brilliant photography that makes the viewer concentrate on scenes rather than continuity, but the camera work has an expressive clarity and nightmarish emotional intensity which speaks even more clearly than the script It is this visual language, more than words, which says that Sandro sees Claudia as just a new adventure. But the same language portrays emotional tone so clearly that the film's message clearly lies in Claudia's changing attitude...
Recurring images of his nightmarish past blend into the impressions of his daily life. The camera does this well. Because the remnants of old fears and frustrations are expressed as visual symbols, it becomes difficult to distinguish the young man's dreams from his present reality. Across from his rooming house is a playground of his nightmare, the same voices of children, the same little girls jumping rope. Even the daughter of the woman he loves bears a striking resemblance to his former victim. This is so convincing that the man although both are rationally aware that all the audience...
...spastic, coyly protests: "No, you can't take your clothes off. Absolutely not!" A man in a gaudy African headdress wheels on an outsize baby stroller containing an intricately entwined couple and shouts: "Doctor! Doctor! Two of my villagers are stuck together!" The critics were not amused ("nightmarish frenzy"; "vast perversity"), but the vigor of their responses suggests that 29-year-old Playwright Gelber has touched some exposed nerve ends of the contemporary scene as he did in his first play about dope addicts, The Connection. Gelber likes to break the neck off the bottle of experience...
...more nightmarish weapons have made war a monstrosity, an impossibility. There is a new reluctance to speak of nuclear warfare for fear of being thought 'soft' either by the Russians or our own Russians, the right-wing extremists," he declared...
...high time. Behind the pink of its cherry blossoms and beyond the noble sweep of Pierre L'Enfant's broad avenues, Washington long ago became a blighted city, with some of the U.S.'s worst slums and nightmarish traffic. By 1950 the rush to the suburbs was in full surge, tax revenues were plunging, building within the city was at a standstill, and the downtown area alone was short 29,000 parking spaces. Effective plans for rehabilitating the city were lost in the bureaucratic babble of congressional committees, commissions, boards and councils that govern Washington...