Word: somberness
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Then Visconti assumes a more somber tone. Konrad turns out to be a person of radical political persuasion. Helmut Berger is a conspicuously unreliable man to get close to in a locker room, much less in a demonstration; he is nevertheless required to convince us that he "threw himself into the student movement." This background, which is about as likely as Jean Cocteau in his youth going three rounds in the Golden Gloves eliminations, rather diminishes the credibility of Visconti's entire enterprise...
...pace of this Menagerie, directed by Robert Lisack, is slow at first, its tone somber almost to the point of dreariness. What sustains the show, until the superb climactic scene, is the generally high caliber of the acting. Bonnie DeLorme as Amanda is a classically stifling mother. Both harridan and guardian, she pines over her lost youth as a southern belle and happily nurses the memory of the day she entertained 17 gentleman callers. DeLorme's gestures are a bit awkward at times, but her lips, pouting or trembling, and her eyes, gazing into the past or seeing a future...
When Canadian Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, former head of the World Health Organization, issued that somber warning in 1957, the public seemed to be of two minds about scientists-awed by their stunning achievements, but increasingly apprehensive about new dangers brought by technological progress, from nerve gases to nuclear weaponry. How do people feel about scientists today? Two British weeklies, the New Scientist, which reports developments in research and technology for a largely scientific audience, and New Society, which is dedicated to the social sciences, recently collaborated on an unusual readership poll in order to find an answer-and also...
...years ago, Richard Avedon has been making shock waves with his camera. He was a highly innovative fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, snapping his models in the midst of wild-eyed elephants or striding in the rain. But it was his still and startlingly somber portraiture of celebrities and friends that established him, along with Andre Kertesz, Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith and Ansel Adams, as one of the most important photographers in the world...
...writers. As for American painters and sculptors, it is now impossible for them to épater les bourgeois. Today the bourgeoisie vie with each other for possession of the most avant-garde gesture. Given this tradition, Warren's fear that creators will suddenly be ostracized seems unduly somber...