Word: overtly
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FROM its first shots Willie Boy feels bleak. We see a great deal of motion, physical action, without overt emotional content. Polonsky's feelings toward the characters do not accumulate in their figures; they are invested in their situation: they are felt in the separation of figure from background. the exact hollow space that allows each man a certain freedom of action...
...confidence in the sentimental nature of events. They are just more strangenesses in a loosely structured film. But Polonsky's descents to cliche and sentiment finally interfere with our perception of the event in itself, instead of helping us see it in new lights. It's better to avoid overt sentiment, and show a totally different scheme of personal relations, than to use it in hopes of shaking the audience loose from its sentimental outlook. The audience for such cold, quirky films must be nearly as large as the audience for articles that don't tell what the film they...
...talking with the cast about this the other day. Genet is a criminal who has lived more of his life in jail than out of it. He's an overt homosexual and has lived his entire life that...
...planks edge to edge, smoothed them, and then brushed on a white gesso base. He drew his composition on the gesso in gray chalk. That done, he would start painting in egg tempera, thinly and swiftly. His first layers of color, though, often bore no overt relation to the effect in his mind. Ice, for example, might be lemon-yellow at the start. Blue oil glazes floated over it would freeze the ice to green. And after that, translucent gray watercolor touches, softly laid, would set the ice flat in its fields of snow...
...came to an end with the assassination of Martin Luther King, it was especially meaningful to have the American flag fly alongside the UN flag and the Christian flag in the funeral procession in the streets of Montgomery because the States Rights banner of the Confederacy had been the overt or covert symbol of the opposition to integration then being enforced by the Attorney General, the U.S. marshals, and the Supreme Court. But now in the kindred movement of opposition to the war, enlisting many of the same people and in any case the same kind of people who participated...