Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although large and even exciting actions go on--mostly off stage--the mood and tone remain rather static and distant, as if the characters on stage were dimly conscious that an audience 3000 years away was watching...
...stage, liquid-fuel missile with an Atlas-type nose cone and an Atlas-sized engine thrust that can power a hydrogen warhead more than 5,500 miles. Another advantage: Titan can be broken down into two parts for easier ground or air-cargo transportation. Titan has undergone static tests of its component parts, has not yet been tested as a complete weapons system, is not expected to reach test-flight status until fall...
...little development toward the identity of the artist with his environment that the last stanza professes him to have achieved. Granted the painter may have felt this identity, but it is still up to the poem to help the reader partake of the process. But it's too static and remains as a whole nebulous and gray. Despite its other virtues, there is little light and color in the imagery, something which is doubly essential here because of the central position of a painting in the poem...
Hamlet (RCA Victor, 2 LPs). Sir John Gielgud, as a pensive, polished Dane, takes up arms against a sea of troubles with the able help of London's Old Vic Company, which is always impressive, if sometimes too elegant-sounding and static. In contrast to Sir Laurence Olivier's brasher, more youthful performance in 1948, Gielgud's version is resigned, traditional, declamatory; but it emerges as a memorable reading. All in all, from the creepy wind sighings and distant bells on the battlements of Elsinore in the first scene to the swordplay and slaughter of the last...
...Static. Many FCC commissioners predict privately that not enough of the public will pay for toll TV to make it practical. Although the FCC's decision will help resolve the issue, it will also set up many hurdles for pay-TV proponents...