Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perhaps Khrushchev's cracks at joint East-West aid were an attempt to head off any Nasser move now to get Western help in making the dam a reality. But Khrushchev's bold gesture stirred Arab gratitude, and Nasser had his own domestic reasons for making it sound bigger and better than it actually...
...curing eleven years of impotent democracy: 1) the legal system, based on the British code, must be drastically improved to give the people "quicker justice"; 2) birth control must be introduced because Pakistanis are "breeding too fast"; 3) Pakistan must prepare itself for austerity in order to regain a sound economy...
...though never really dramatic, The Family Reunion can become suddenly theatrical; its Chorus of Uncles and Aunts, although too selfconscious, can be amusing or striking; the atmosphere can quiver with menace; and the expertly managed verse is flexible as other things are rigid. Stuart Vaughan's sound staging and Norris Houghton's shapely set make for helpfully stylized effects, although a cast that includes Florence Reed, Lillian Gish and Fritz Weaver tends to act in varying styles. The cast, understandably, come off best where Eliot did-with the language...
These statements, which contain the essential message of the film, have poetic light and spiritual resonance, but they read better than they sound from the screen. Despite intelligent acting by Actor Howard, skillful touches from Director Huston and some awesome landscapes with elephants, this huge (2 hrs. 11 mins.) movie finally seems no more than a literary notion that has apparently suffered, along with CinemaScope and DeLuxe color, a severe attack of elephantiasis...
...orchestra set a precedent by playing the opening work, Mozart's Symphony No. 26, in a manner which revealed careful preparation and attention to some detail. Usually the openers are shunted off to the first and last rehearsals, and sound it; this is a good tradition to break...