Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect. To try to put pictures of one village burning into proper context, to balance that one incident against all the other activity that makes up the war in Viet Nam, would be all but impossible. On TV news, pictures make their own frontpage context; it takes a skillful script indeed to give them an added dimension, to remind the viewer that they are only part of the story. All too often the reporter in the field only adds a little wordy color, or asks an inane question: "Seen action like this before, Marine...
...show's script was free-form and quaintly irrelevant. Dialogue digressions aimed at the battered, traditional suckers for satire like TV commercials, college rules, and the President, managed to keep just the right side of boring. But it was close...
Erector Phrases. In answer to the Democratic slur that an actor can hardly open his mouth unless he has memorized someone else's script, Reagan and his staff emphasize that he writes all his own speeches. Given the swollen staffs of specialists that surround most campaigners nowadays, the endeavor seems anachronistic. Yet, true enough, Reagan sits day after day on his campaign plane or bus hunched over 3-in. by 5-in. index cards, laboriously printing capital letters with a nylon-tip pen-"my speech for the next town." He has a kind of mental Erector set of phrases...
...numbing movies recently, acts as if he painfully shared the loss. Or maybe he just looks worried because the bangs, booms, blats and blooies on the sound track are so loud that the spectators can hardly hear what he is saying. But if he is saying what the script says ("Out of the trucks and take cover, men!"), he ought to be glad they...
Graceless, monotonous, unfaithful to its source, Hamlet is less tragedy than catastrophe in the hands of Grigory Kozintzev. This is far inferior to the Olivier and Burton filmed Hamlets, and it is less relevant to Shakespeare's art than both Orson Welles's diced-up Othello, which took its script from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and Sergei Youtkevich's Othello, which like the present film could display its poetry only in subtitles...