Word: outerness
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Buntism derives from Sergeant Matthew Bunt, a British Marine who was two years a castaway on an uninhabited Pacific islet early in the igth century. When prim Captain Overton of H.M.S. Achilles stopped by, Marine Bunt, greeting him on the beach, showed some outer symptoms of extreme Buntism-"a paunch that hung over the belt of his tattered drawers, and cheeks which shook." But Captain Overton did not recognize the signs. "Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on. This promises...
Meanwhile, to delay the audience's realization of this main plot and to create the feeling of outer outer space, there are stereophonic sound effects to echo the dialogue. It usually sounds as though the man behind you is whistling in your ear. By far the most believable of unbelievable settings treats any physics major's imagination, and Robbie the Robot, who can produce 60 gallons of Kansas City Bourbon in one sitting, amuses everyone with his radio announcer's accent...
...green sky, two moons, and the beautiful craggy countryside. In the big love affair between the space ship's captain and the scientis's daughter, Anne Francis is successfully taught the secret of the Earth people's popularity: they kiss well. Thus the picture again proves the tale of outer space: the forbidden planet is Hollywood...
...main problems here for the incipient composer are over-all form and stylistic consistency, plus the special difficulties involved in writing a slow movement (which often trips up even the best-established composers). Frederic Rzewski '58's Sonata for Violin and Piano was most successful in the fast outer movements. The first movement, in a modified sonata-form with a bit too much stop-and-go, adopted a Bartokian brutality and approach to dissonance; and the finale dared to end softly with an effective pizzicato and staccato section. Rzewski failed to realize, however, that the bottom range of the violin...
...been burned as a witch, La Voisin by name, was no innocent victim but a notorious poisoner and promoter of Black Masses. She symbolized the strange, diabolic resistance movement that flourished beneath the surface of official society, just as Madame de Sévigné symbolized the outer serenity and almost Japanese exactitude of social forms. There is no evidence that her 17th century mind understood that underground passion for evil any more than the passion for sainthood. She could only sigh with stoic disenchantment: "What hope can there be. for one who is neither worthy of heaven...