Word: seamlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Modern man's awe of nature has pretty much atrophied. Primitive man stood in still wonder in the presence of the seamless order of the elements and took violent fissures of that order as omens of supernatural wrath. Today such disasters are rationalized as freakish accidents, not as shattering revelations of immutable forces that man may never tame...
Sweeney Todd (The Entertainment Channel). Terry Hughes directed Stephen Sondheim's operatic musical for cable with seamless theater and TV technique. George Hearn was magnificent as Sweeney, the misanthropic cutthroat; Angela Lansbury was delectably deranged as his helpmeet...
Meryl Streep's performance is a seamless, seductive piece. Sophie's past justifies Streep's familiar mannerisms: the wistful, knowing smile, the nervous fingers burrowing into a copse of hair, the starts and stops of dialogue, even the red blotches on her skin in moments of high tension. She plays Sophie in a Polish-accented contralto and, in the flashbacks, speaks serviceable Polish and German. In a smaller picture, with a lesser actress, this would seem a highfalutin stunt, a meaningless demonstration of dexterity. Here it is one more challenge that this galvanizing actress set for herself...
...nightclub where Bob Montagne (Roger Duchesne) is losing miserably at craps, the atmosphere changes to one which is highly stylized and starkly black-and-white. The beauty of this film is the way in which it blends those two textures, morally as well as visually, into a witty and seamless union of French style and American film noir...
...sweep that is to be found only among the masterworks of modern art." Of Avery's power as a colorist, there is no reasonable doubt. The only way not to feel it in the Whitney is to wear sunglasses. But Avery as draftsman? The color weaves a seamless fabric of pleasure; the drawing punches large puritan holes...