Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reflex Anger. Before the passage of that act, militant civil rights leaders descended on the Dallas County city of Selma in March 1965. They delighted at the reflex anger of Dallas Sheriff Jim Clark and his mounted "posse men," his electric-shock cattle prods, and forced marches of Negro children. After the inevitable clash on Sunday, March 7, 1965, when 650 Negroes met tear gas and clubs, Judge Johnson enjoined both Governor George Wallace and Martin Luther King from further action. Then he pondered a tough issue-whether to let the Negroes cross Pettus Bridge, march on Route...
...black, and occasionally blue, content, Entertaining Mr. Sloane is an absorbing comedy. Joe Orton spoon feeds his audience shock and grotesquerie, he doesn't throw it in their face. He uses an acute comic talent to show how people lose themselves in petty, selfish, and deviate concerns. The playwright has taken the time he is serving at a leading London prison to construct a careful play which grows progressively grotesque as the characters perceive and accommodate each other's desires...
Laurence Senelick's directing captured the play's tone and succeeded in making this light black comedy touching as well as funny. The sparingly used shock effects and sight gags, the sharp blocking, the distinct footwork which marks each character, the special lighting for climactic moments, combined to give the show a stagey, super-charged quality. The cast included two of the best character actors in Cambridge, Marilyn Pitzele and Senelick himself. They cleverly made their characters a little larger than life, a little histrionic, rather than strictly realistic...
...coup that seized Greece was so swift and efficient that most Greeks hardly knew what had happened. Last week, as the initial shock of the military take-over wore off, Greeks started to learn something about their new rulers and to adjust to life under a rigid regime...
...method that can be identified is his use of close-ups. Objects inherently grotesque, though subdued by their everyday contexts, often fill his Panavision screen: fishguts on a butcher's block, kidneys plopping into a cat's dish. The viewer perceives that what might have been a "shock image" in Polanski or Hitchcock has not been used as such, but has been subdued by its context, as such things are in our everyday consciousness...