Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel still more detached, more based on hope and less on assured expectations. Its camera motions are so sweeping, so graceful, so continuous that one suddenly realizes a disturbing truth: Ophuls' camera motions impose a romantic way of life on his characters. Through graceful motion the characters can rise above their physical settings and live in a triumphant, artistic, romantic style. But the camera sweeping through dinners and dances traps them in the gay motion of high society, a motion of great fragility in its almost pure, reflected human forms. The motion of their figures in Ophuls' long, smooth takes...
When Lola first meets the King his room is filled with depth, but each spot in it is exactly limted and structured by the regular columns which rise from floor to ceiling, by the regular wall-cornicing in the background, by the desk and steps which divide up the spacious floor. The two figures in this setting are not isolated, but not confined either. The integration of space and characters is perfect; its thematic parallel is the relation of these two personalities; strong yet subtle, passionate and deep yet completely controlled. Nevertheless Lola is in a desperate situation...
Troy, they "came to the two fair-flowing springs, where two fountains rise that feed deep-eddying Skamandros." As it happens, Berve notes, Schliemann's excavations revealed not one Troy but a city that had been repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt over a period of more than a thousand years...
...worker who has seen his weekly purchasing power decline in the past year from $78.47 to $78.23 in May, the best news is the prospect of increasingly stable prices. Government economists figure that the rate of rise in living costs may go up in the next few months because of seasonal factors, but that the index will be advancing at a fairly steady 4% annual rate at year's end. They expect the Government's anti-inflationary moves to have worked their restraints on prices by then, if not earlier...
...CLEAR, however, that any new housing will not be available for at least two more years, and we must do something immediately. I think that "something" must aim as precisely as possible at the core of the problem. We must control the unreasonable rise of rents with a tool that deals with those rents directly...