Word: quotidian
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...conventional, and the only "cinematic effects" are subtle ones: the way he almost always has DeNiro in the frame, ever when he's not talking; marvelous chiaroscuro effects with the black-and-white film; remarkably restrained glimpses from subjective angles. This approach not only fits the material--flat, quotidian life--but it allows Scorsese a creative contrast in technique in filming the boxing sequences...
...transforming magic of an artist's style leads him to overrate the beautifully written blarney of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By the same token, he somewhat underrates Jane Austen, who, despite her "pert, precise and polished" prose, is so deeply rooted in the quotidian that he misses her enchantment. Yet he celebrates his own aesthetic, the "capacity to wonder at trifles," with an ardor that is irresistible. "These asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness," he maintains, "and it is in this childishly speculative state...
Some heavy ironic meaning might have been imposed on these juxtapositions of the quotidian and the violent, and the younger Fuller might have done so. But now he merely touches on them and passes on, leaving them to work on his viewers' minds as they imagine the memories must have, over the years...
These enduring vignettes all reflect Hitchcock's central preoccupation: the intrusion of the anarchical, the evil, on great symbols of order (such as a society's revered monuments) or on the pleasantly quotidian (amusment park, playground, church, home). Born the son of a lower-middle-class London shopkeeper and reared as a Catholic, Hitchcock discovered early on that original sin was very likely an immutable concept, that bourgeois security was perhaps all too mutable. He never quite got over the shock...
DIED. James Wright, 52, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for poetry; of an undisclosed ailment; in New York City. His subjects captured quotidian images from his native Midwest, among them: "Crickets outside my window, cold and hungry old men, a red-haired child in her mother's arms...