Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARKNESS COMMONS. The Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin...
...source of the problem--and of the sequence's effectiveness--lies in what is different from film. The moments which sequences show best are too brief to be approciated in the rush of the motion picture; when frozen and separated they reveal a movement that is more delicate and complex. Sequences have something to teach about film itself: how each shot can be composed to lead into the next...
...Gold Rush. Perhaps no other film is so lighthearted and yet so moving. Charlie Chaplin's story of a lone prospector during the Alaska gold rush is based on pantomime of amazing finesse: Chaplin's direction exemplifies flawless subordination of camera and technique to the subject's subtleties. Many of Chaplin's most famous scenes are found here: the dance of the rolls. Big Jim McKay thinking Chaplin a chicken. Chaplin's delight at the smile Georgia meant for another man. Every scene, even every slapstick gag, contributes to the film as a whole--that's one reason Chaplin stands...
That was about as definitive a statement as Washington would allow in a week of rumors. TIME correspondents nevertheless were able to reconstruct much of the final push toward peace and to glean the general outlines of the impending settlement. Despite the relative rush with which the pieces began falling together, a successful outcome had been seriously in doubt at many points along...
...wish to protest against the brutality of the Boston police, last night, after the parade, in cruelly and without provocation beating and wounding a woman and several students in the crowd in Park Square. The policemen had been told of the possibility of a rush and were evidently anxious that none should take place. But at the time when they made the assault the students were gathered together without any intention or serious thought of rushing, and were merely cheering while waiting for Cambridge cars...