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...confused with the process of Cinema. For "Normal Vision," the viewer must observe the picture through Polaroid glasses, and the screen is about stand and size. Since this is a new press, flaws are obvious and excusable. For instance, important syncronation of the dual mages makes moving figures Shimmer, as though viewed through a layer of slightly agitated water. Also, figures in a scene with depth, appear smaller than those in normal pictures. This means that the audience, in many cases, feels further away from the action than usual, thus defeating the purpose of three dimensions. Experimentation should correct these...
Capote knows how to capture the universal in the eccentric; and his earlier scenes have a humorous shimmer and elan, as of a story that will move skippingly toward its secret. But the play thereafter cannot evoke its meaning through its mood, or even sustain its mood. It becomes a half-farcical, half-melodramatic vaudeville, and its people finally go home less changed themselves than as though changes of character awaited them there. There is less a failure of logic than of magic, which is the more pronounced since the production-in Virgil Thomson's atmospheric music and Cecil...
Love would dominate Venus if language did not drench it. Language is Fry's own true love, and Venus catches the glow of poetry, the mocking glints of parody, the flashing of rhetoric and the shimmer of wit. Amid such a tangle of traffic lights, traffic itself snarls, detours and halts. In The Lady's Not for Burning, with its medieval echoes and broomstick leaps of witchcraft and romance, Fry could be simultaneously prankster and poet, could spoof the very verse he spouted. But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare...
...thorough biographical study of Shahn by Poet-Critic Selden Rodman (Portrait of the Artist as an American; Harper, $6.50). Rodman got most of his material from the horse's mouth, but could not make Shahn a horse of a definite color. What the book captures is the brilliant shimmer of a man too seldom at a loss. "Shahn," Rodman explains, "is a man of paradoxes...
...German of obvious good will, author and clergyman Albrecht Goes (himself a chaplain in World War II) seems more at home with a podium under foot than a pen in hand. His "good German" chaplain is a preachy bore who loves Beethoven and quotes Goethe, thrills to the "knightly shimmer" of a dashing captain headed for certain death at Stalingrad. But if Hitler's Germany had had the same ratio of soul-searching Hamlets as Unquiet Night, the Fiihrer's Wehrmacht would have been reduced to a hard core of about a platoon...