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...question nobody wanted to answer. It was the question that nobody dared answer. It threatened and sneered like a snake poised in the shadow, ready to fight with you for your life...
...mistake. That is why it has been an error to replace the protection of walls with today's intemperate use of enormous glass windows." Many of his devices serve absolutely no function except visual delight; he thinks nothing of erecting a free standing wall simply to catch the shadow of a nearby tree. Where others speak of views, Barragán celebrates the walled garden. Says he: "A landscape that is held and framed with a proper foreground is worth double." He would like the garden to be living room "to give back to modern man the treasure of having more...
...Jimmy Stewart wrestling with his fear in a church steeple in order to rescue his lost love at the end of Vertigo. There is Cary Grant climbing the stairs to bring Joan Fontaine a glass of milk?or is it poison??in Suspicion. There is sweet Uncle Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt musing about women in a small town kitchen as Hitchcock deftly uses light and a simple camera move to bring out the evil implications of his seemingly innocent speech...
...mass, and the girl in the center as a floral brightness--her right arm lifted in a practiced wave, the sun highlighting her shoulder, her smiling, tulip-like face angled toward the camera. Then your eye locates the profile of the man driving the car, and the slanting shadow that bisects his face seems to infiltrate the meaning and scope of the entire scene: the faces in the crowd appear distinctly conspiratorial; the girl has been debased into a symbol, and is happily oblivious to what that symbol embodies or supports; and even inanimate objects and trivial details--the sheen...
Apparently determined to keep the game within reach of the home team, the officials let Adelphi roughness go unaccounted for while shaking the Crimson down for its shadow-like but still clean defense...