Word: splices
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...SEES what he brings to it, but my family numbers among a bare handful of observers who, eight years ago, briefly saw in Namibia another type of parallel--a Kennedy-esque Camelot dream that ended in ruin. Between 1975 and 1978, when the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance was trying to splice the various majority and minority rules into a constitution at a national convention, my father served as legal counsel to Clemens Kapuuo, president of the moderate delegation and chief of the Herero tribe which, back in 1951, had been responsible for the original U.N. petition...
...program, which the two groups traditionally split, ranges from arrangements of carols by the Glee Club to sacred-sounding set pieces. With the move to Sanders from St. Paul's Church, where last year's concert was held, the groups have eliminated the audience-participation carols which used to splice pieces together in the concerts. "That was just to cover our walking from place to place," explains Taylor...
...taped actions and words of his younger self, fantasizing each time Krapp the younger reminisces about a woman, and occasionally rousing himself to sing a song or swig from a wine bottle at the younger one's cue. In a device of mixed effectiveness, Cherson has chosen to splice actual slides of women into the fantasy sequence, which lends immediacy but punctures the script's hypnotic solipsism...
...something of a scientific anachronism, and not because of her 79 years. Unlike most scientists at the famed biology laboratory in the small Long Island, N.Y., town of Cold Spring Harbor, she does not splice, cut or reshuffle the genes of viruses and bacteria. Rather, for the past four decades, Geneticist Barbara McClintock has been carefully breeding and crossbreeding corn, trying to cull from it some kernels of truth about the secrets of genetic diversity, just as the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel did in his famous pea patch more than a century ago. McClintock's colleagues, caught...
...fair, the actors get no help from their director. Neame paces the film by putting a five-second pause between each line of dialogue, as if he were going to splice in an audience laugh track but forgot at the last minute. The dead time only further highlights the inanities Matthau and Clayburgh spit at each other. In an effort to create the stately atmosphere of the high court, Neame relies almost exclusively on close-up, static shots of the two principals inside their chambers. Without any camera movement, he creates a Bergman-like claustrophobia--ridiculously out of place...