Word: sawtooths
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...methodical reading. As for the decor, with the world's best to choose from, the Met had again picked the second-rate. The sets by German Designer Teo Otto were pedestrian and confusing: starkly realistic castle turrets and ramparts set alongside fanciful, gold-leafed trees and stylized, sawtooth waves...
...each one. They have the brightness, boldness and paradoxical vagueness that six-year-olds generally bring to painting, but behind the pictures' ebullience lies a highly sophisticated intelligence. Gerassi's Magic Mountains (right) is done with rockbottom economy of means: a few horizontal stripes, one with a sawtooth edge. To those who demand recognizable details, it may seem little more than a close-up of a rusty saw. But taken on its own terms, as evocation rather than description, it can have the misty morning grandeur of a mirage that stays. The Sun Is Never Alone presents...
Ernest Laszlo's photography and Robert Aldrich's direction help make the film appear a little grander than it really is. There are some fine shots of a realistic Indian village and of hazy plains and sawtooth mountains. Good scene: Massai's bewilderment as he wanders through the streets of bustling 1886 St. Louis, eying such strange sights as a player piano, a fire wagon, women in bustles...
...flashing coastal light. Said Admiral Doyle to the CINC: "They've left their navigation lights on. That's the fourth we've picked up on the way in here this morning." Said MacArthur: "That's courtesy." As the Asiatic sunrise broke over the black, sawtooth hills of the Korean coast, the general grasped both arms of his chair. "Just like Lingayen Gulf," he observed. "But quieter and nicer...
...South Korea's bustling capital of Seoul, surrounded by sawtooth granite hills, army jeeps carrying loudspeakers roared through the streets, urging soldiers: "Go and join your units immediately." Buses and trucks were commandeered by the army to transport troops to the front. No one was quite sure where the front was; it seemed to be moving rapidly toward the capital. Seoul's jails, which contain many political prisoners suspected of plotting against the Southern regime, were heavily guarded by jittery police...