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...Because the dynamics of the military are merely extensions of politics, the film is an indictment of the general social situation it depicts as well. Kubrick's camerawork brilliantly expresses the varying cultural vacuums in which his characters trek, from the vertiginous ballrooms of the military elite to the squat squalor of the trenches. And the acting he evokes from a cast largely composed of has-beens and second-rates is exemplary...
This sense of primitive energy permeated all Matisse's work, even a still life like The Blue Cloth, 1909; the whorls and cusps of the fabric, ultramarine laid into azure, twist and leap with the exuberance of dolphins, and are duly stabilized by the squat, familiar forms of coffeepot and flask. "Our only object is wholeness," Matisse declared. "We must learn, perhaps relearn, to express ourselves by means of line. Plastic art will inspire the most direct emotion possible by the simplest of means." And once art gained that absolute concreteness of sensation, it could become the "subject...
...full flight down an Alp's snowy flank, Austria's Annemarie Proell resembles nothing so much as a controlled crash about to happen. Feet well apart, arms locked to her thighs, in an awkward-looking squat that offends purists, she rockets out of the starting gate toward the first turn. Her motives for that all-out start are direct: "I try to risk as much as possible in the first few gates," she says. "It makes the competition nervous-I know they watch...
...squat frame, the moonface, the rubbery lips that were ever consuming a $1 cigar, the metallic voice that landed like a tattoo of blows-Edward G. Robinson seemed not at all constructed for Hollywood's romantic era or for surviving his early typecasting as super-mug. Yet Robinson packed such intense integrity into every role, focused his steely talent with such skill, aged with such grace, that when he died of cancer last week at 79, he truly deserved the accolades strewn upon his memory...
...Miss Gregg made a typographical error. She copied this off on her machine an' did it in a rush an' there's several mistakes you'll run across. Use your head, pipecleaner. One doesn't squat before the campfire to bow-wow and barley. One squats before the campfire to pow-wow an' parley...