Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presenting a highly favorable portrait of an American sage, Steel fortunately does not overlook either his judgemental mistakes or his personal faults. But these cannot obscure the value of his vision. Lippmann once described the room he worked in. It was sound-proof, and he kept his desk away from the windows so the noise and glare of the outside world would not disrupt his concentration. In an electronic culture where the media forms public opinion through momentary impressions, where fragmentary polls haphazardly spell out the political future, Lippmann's example of a diligent, reflective spokesman who found the time...
...assistance program. Then he hopped back aboard Air Force One and flew off to Tokyo for a memorial service honoring the late Japanese Prime Minister, Masayoshi Ohira. Though autos were not on the agenda of the President's 21-hour stay in Tokyo, his Japanese hosts could hardly overlook the well-publicized stopover in the heart of the U.S. auto industry. The message: Jimmy Carter was attempting to rescue the U.S.'s sickest industry, and he wanted Japanese help...
...Overlook represents our monstrous, ghostly past, a life-giving-and-taking force similar to the black slab in 2001. "You've always been the caretaker," the ghost of Delbert Grady informs Jack, and indeed, man has always been here. When Jack tells Danny that he never, ever, wants to leave the hotel, he is striving for a painful immortality that cannot be reached outside the hotel...
...CAMERA NEVER RESTS, sliding past the pillars and walls of this magnificent hotel, keeping us confused. Like the Torrances, we get lost in this maze of doors and rooms and carpeted hallways. Several times the camera dances to floor-level and we view Danny, Wendy and Jack from the Overlook's perspective: Danny through the bars of his tricycle; Wendy a prisoner of Jack's typewriter; and Jack a desperate, slovenly, impotent creature...
Stanley Kubrick is America's finest film craftsman. The Shining may not be a masterpiece but it is the only film in months that deserves a second look. The horrors of the Torrances' battle against Overlook obscure Kubrick's careful hand the first time around. Only a second journey through the padded hallways and inviting doors of the mysterious Room 237 reveals the brilliance of a director whose razor-sharp art draws both from precise science and glassy-eyed witchcraft...