Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dial M for Murder (Warner) started out in 1952 as a British television drama, moved on to long, successful runs on the London stage and Broadway, and has now been made into a first-rate movie. Director Alfred Hitchcock, by shooting the film in three-dimensional WarnerColor, avoids the static quality common to many stage plays when transferred to the screen. The 3-D is used not so much for its shock value as to bring alive for moviegoers much of the theater's intimacy and depth of movement...
...oddest factor in the Eisenstein technique is the feeling of motion that he maintains with essentially static grouping and poses. Telling a good part of his story by shifting the camera from group to group, Eisenstein at no time dwells long enough on any subject to create the boredom attending many of the silent films that, like Alexander Nevsky, give the main role to the director and his camera...
...single ounce of Nu-Soft added to the final rinse water, says Harshaw, will eliminate static electricity from wool and nylon, leave all clothes soft, fluffy and easy to iron. Price...
...have said little else . . . One of my anxieties . . . has been *lest a rigid system be imposed on mankind and that fragile quality, his capacity for novel ideas, for novel aspects of old ideas, be frozen and he go on century after century . . . until he and his society reach the static level of the insects . . . You may have wondered at my coolness, not to John Dewey personally . . . but to his thought. The reason is that the emphasis of his thought is on security. But the vitality of man's mind is in adventure...
...emphasizing that a balance of power is not a static thing, Stevenson criticized the theory of instantaneous atomic retaliation as insufficient to retain such a balance. Such a policy prevented neither Korea nor the situation in Indochina, he said...