Word: overgrowths
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Where the film departs from the stage production is in the emphasis of the direction. Perhaps to make up for the confinement of the setting, Elia Kazan set his cameramen and actors to highlight every eccentricity in the cast. Brando responded to this kind of direction by developing an overgrowth of quirks, brilliantly freakish, that dominate every scene in which he enters. As he appears before fastidious Blanche for the first time, the camera-eye stares fascinated at a huge sweat-stain on his T-shirt, just above the area where he is scratching himself; for half a minute...
Thomas Wolfe's work is an "ailing overgrowth of superabundant sensibility"; he was "guilty of the heresy of expressive form: the belief . . . that life best expresses itself in art by duplicating its own confusion in the transferred form of the spectator's emotion." Products of the run of generally read novelists-Fabricius, Feuchtwanger, Cronin, Stribling, Lewis-are briefly dismissed, not for lack of interest or use, but "because they show little material for literary criticism to fasten...
Main cause of the deep middle-ear deafness which afflicts 5,000,000 people in the U. S. is otosclerosis, a bony overgrowth blocking off the window which leads to the inner ear. Most operations designed to open a window may be dangerous, for they involve partial destruction of the heavy mastoid bone. Dr. Lempert cuts directly through the ear (see cut), and carves out a brand-new window. With a dentist's burr, he drills into the middle ear, drills out a new window in one of the semicircular canals and rearranges hammer, anvil and stirrup...
...weeks; small tender spots on the lips and tongue of smokers; loss of appetite and indigestion; persistent hoarseness not caused by a cold; moles, warts and wens. Every person has an average of 27 small blemishes on his body, says Dr. Little. At middle age these "small centers of overgrowth of tissue" may start to grow again and become tender. Prompt treatment prevents them from becoming cancerous...
When Author Morison was a young man (he is now 45), much interested in the historical figure of Jesus, he was not satisfied with "its overgrowth of primitive beliefs and dogmatic suppositions, planned to write a book giving the true history as well as he could reconstruct it, of Jesus' trial, crucifixion, death. When he came to write the book, his investigations and deductions led him to a different interpretation from the one he had in mind. His problem finally resolved itself into the title of his book: who moved the stone from Jesus' tomb? Author Morison...