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...rather in a dim and slightly mottled gloom, punctuated occasionally by the lurid light of a blood-red sky. Furtive figures frantically seek to escape this depressing darkness, a darkness that almost becomes a metaphor for Quint's malevolence. Clever special effects make the two ghosts seem especially spectral. While the evil former man-servant appears and vanishes high at the top of the tower. Miss Jessel is lit from below, a technique which illuminates her grotesquels painted face and casts an abnormally immense black shadow on the ceiling of the room. We are continually reminded by the lighting...
...Howl. It was a poetic tantrum thrown at the Eisenhower years, at an academic system that rejected his rude unconventionality, at an encompassing conspiracy he imagined had driven his mother and his soul mates crazy. "Moloch! Moloch!" he cried. "Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses...
ROCKABY. In two stunning short plays by Samuel Beckett, Footfalls and Rockaby, daft old women lull themselves to death with monologues of sere poetry. This explorer of the darkest human emotions found in Actress Billie Whitelaw the ideal interpreter of his spectral campfire tales...
During a year of shadowy seclusion, his cantankerous volubility has given way to a quiet, mysterious, world-weary amiability. Looking almost spectral in a rumpled suit, Menachem Begin, 71, left Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem after a successful prostate operation. It was the former Prime Minister's first public appearance since he resigned 13 months ago. When he emerged into the hospital's parking lot, leaning on the arm of his daughter Hassia, Begin softly praised his doctors and nurses and said in Hebrew, "Happy New Year to the people of Israel." He then was driven...
...foot long AXAF will travel into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle to an altitude of about 288 miles, where the high resolution x-ray telescope will orbit the earth. Its highly sensitive eye will include instruments for detection and spectral analysis...