Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roland Kirk, who came just after BS&T, had a surprise in store. Kirk had an impossible job cut out for him, and he knew it. So he pulled a Cassius Clay, a Broadway Joe: he stood there telling you that he was going to "pull you in," that he was going to blow your head. And he filled the spaces in his monologue with music that...
...drove off the line powerfully, with a minimum of roughness, and quickly opened up a small lead. By the mile flags, they had a half-length on the Argonauts, but the British crew was raising its stroke to a frantic, punishing 41, gambling the race on its ability to pull even during the final 550 yards...
Director Gill has done more, however, than provide two balanced leads shining against a dull background. His surprising accomplishment has been to elicit a new kind of balance: somehow he has managed to pull the rest of his cast up to the level of his Beatrice and Benedick, almost to a man. Although the text rises and sags, all the component groups of characters come across on a rather evenly balanced level; it is this that makes the play seem better than it really is. This Much Ado is a real company show. Just about everyone speaks cleanly, crisply, intelligibly...
...they ignore a figure reading Rousseau, and interrupt a beautiful rendition of a Mozart sonata--the characters are merely destroying the cultural background of their bourgeois society. The beauty of Godard's compositions and camera motions in these sequences in undermined by their violent, petty responses, which begin to pull the film apart. In Godard's other films such scenes give the characters an opportunity to express and develop their sensibilities; here they attack the historical culture on which such sensibilities depended...
When we control the production of coal, we hold the vitals of our society right in our hands. I can squeeze, twist, and pull until we get the inevitable victory...