Word: slickness
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Blow-Up, that slick portrayal of swinging London, was pure frippery compared with such masterpieces as L'Avventura and La Notte. Zabriskie Point, his new film about America, lacks even the superficial vigor of Blow-Up. It is to be hoped that Antonioni never goes on location in Australia...
...calmly drive our cars on the highway, does it occur to us that our own life and death is almost completely out of our hands? That at any moment we might perish because somebody on the other side of the road is watching the sunset, or hits an oil-slick, or is just crazy? And if even Camus died that way can any of us be immune...
Just as the subject matter is peculiarly American (the lives of immigrants in the New World) so is the film's style. It has slick effective dialogue, clever camerawork, and all the authentic detail which $8,000,000 can buy. Also effective are the contrasts brought out in the cross-cutting between the pub and the church, and between the slum mines and the sunny green fields. But the effective in American film making is not without its drawbacks and so recalls the words of Lawrence Durrell's Pursewarden: "The effective in art is what rapes the emotion of your...
From then on in the slick Hynes-MacNanama d?? picked apart the Andover defense. By the end of the first period Hynes had converted three MacNamara passes into scores and Harvard...
...struggle occupies the best quarter of the book: in the process, they make contact with Atlantis. Mars, and a resurgent, powerful Navaho nation. They also meet Black Barney, the Air Pirate of India, and the archfiends who will torment them for the next 40 years-Coe Kane, (a slick double agent known as "Killer" to everyone but his brother Nova) and his slithery sidekick Ardala...