Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passed, and sheer numbers on the screen no longer amaze anyone. Kurosawa, however, manages to restore our old sense of wonder by taking his shots from impressive angles and by composing each sequence powerfully. We watch a limitless mob suddenly spring to life in their enormous dungeon; at the peak of their fury only the tips of their improvised clubs are visible, flailing fiercely up and down in the prison gloom. Then the camera shifts to the hill outside. From a point at the base of the slope, we watch the gate burst open at the onslaught of hundreds...
...greater part of The Hidden Fortress takes place in a craggy range of mountains. This setting enables Kurosawa to show his characters at marvelous visual angles, sometimes prone against a sharply rising cliffside, sometimes slipping downwards in an avalanche. Always when the action reaches its peak, he increases the tension by emphasizing the natural angularity, and hence the precarious status of Princess and her followers...
...presidency and his ignoring of the National Assembly. In the wake of De Gaulle's overwhelming victory in the national referendum approving the cease-fire agreement with the Algerian F.L.N., Debré argued for immediate parliamentary elections. His point: chances for a Gaullist sweep were now at their peak but would progressively decline in the months to come as the nation faced such issues as wages and prices, European political organization, nuclear policy-and touchiest of all-the voting of funds to an independent, Moslem-run Algeria...
Steelmen rarely do that well any more. The industry has never again matched 1955's peak production of 117 million tons; technological changes and steel price increases have induced many former steel users to shift to steel substitutes. In the past five years, per capita steel consumption in the U.S. has dropped from one-half ton to about one-third...
...Kirkland production succeeds in capturing the humor, the squalor, the tragedy, and the eeriness of the play. The show starts slowly, but by the second act it is really rolling, and the climactic scenes in the church at Buck Creek and on the mountain peak are powerful theatre...