Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...settle back and watch the ads parade by--it may be monotonous but there is a certain sense to it--but one is constantly distracted by noise from below. One of the features of modern society that Sellars reads into Mayakovsky's vision seems to be a faster pace of life. As the play progresses, he raises decibel levels and frequencies, accelerates speech to screeching chatter and winds his actors up to near-epilepsy. And then suddenly--catanoia: the most tedious final fifteen minutes you'll ever want...
Nothing, indeed. The Red Sox, on the other hand, have a pennant at stake this year, and if they intend to keep pace with the Baltimore Orioles--who seem to grind out one win after another with mechanical precision--they can not afford to drop the silly slouch games they always seem to blow when the Indians roll into town...
...would be deeper and longer than the mild slowdown of six to nine months that the Administration has so far forecast. Miller's projections: unemployment rising from last month's 5.6% to 8.3% of the labor force next year, inflation continuing to roar at a double-digit pace in excess of 10% at least through...
Director Yates, whose best previous work has been in action films like Bullitt, here demonstrates a very nice light touch, as well as a gift for getting full documentary value out of his lo cation. There are a few moments when the picture's easygoing pace turns into wobbliness, but these are insignificant compared with its many moments of shrewd insight into the lives of amusingly shaded but very recognizable human beings. This is the kind of small, star less film that big studios sometimes do not know what to do with. Audiences should have no such difficulty. They...
...MOON STILL WAITS. There are no plans to go back. Some day, though, assuming we don't destroy ourselves first, humans will probably quicken the pace of what one writer has called "our hesitation waltz into space," and return to the lunar surface...