Word: petrie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...odor originally came to the attention of Library officials because of a Student Council committee report which proposed that the filtering of the air in the library should be improved to clear the musty atmosphere. Library officials were "very sympathetic," Thomas E. Petri '62 observed, and contacted the Department of Buildings and Grounds for an immediate study on the Library's air flow...
According to Petri, the odor is most noticeable on wet, rainy days, and is especially bad on the top floors, where the heat rises. Smoke from cigarettes is not a factor in the smell, he said, but bare feet are a possible cause...
...next sequence, though rather narrative and naturalistic, continues to mingle objects and images in such a way that every object demands to be read as if it were a statement. Elio Petri, the director, staged this scene in a studio furnished in modish plastic furniture and embellished with useless toys, so that the sequence builds very cleverly on the aesthetic presumptions of pop art: each object, even pieces of furniture, is a statement the way a painting is a statement: it has been designed and it signifies. Vanessa Redgrave, not quite fresh from her role as one of the objects...
...interested in sensations as psychology, Director Petri forgoes the subtleties of a typical Jamesian ghost story to concentrate on visceral effects. The movie has many kinky and splendidly horrifying moments, including a sadistic nightmare, a daylight visitation in a garden, and a tumultuous seance sequence Franco Nero, in a difficult part, manages to convey just the right amount of obsessive menace;, while the excellent Vanessa Redgrave, in a simpler one lends to the proceedings a saving edge of meticulously rendered reality...
...Petri is a sardonic stylist whose freewheeling camera can perform some incredible acrobatics. In A Quiet Place, it weaves around, goes quickly in and out of focus, moves jarringly from one object to another, all to evoke a sense of edgy anxiety...