Word: static
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carefully thought out but disappointing. The play is one of Shakespeare's most vivid, bloody and craftily psychological works. So was Verdi's operatic treatment when he finally finished revising it 18 years after its 1847 premiėre. Strehler's stylized production is bloodless and static; lethal emotion is indicated by second-rate symbols. Once they seize the throne, Macbeth and his lady trail around in long, heavy robes apparently intended to represent both royalty and their guilty burden. But the onlooker simply worries about whether, in their ceaseless circling, one may trip over the other...
...over the years the hot line has been less than foolproof. Static caused by atmospheric conditions and quirky weather has on occasion rendered it inoperable. Fortunately, neither superpower had any urgent messages to transmit during these periods of non-function. Still, it is chilling to contemplate the future of mankind turning on weather conditions between Moscow and Bern, Switzerland, or on a flare-up of sunspots...
...that year that the Christian Democrats, with a plurality of 48.5 per cent of the vote, established themselves as the party that would dominate the Italian political scene. Since 1948 the DC's hegemony has been uninterruptedly self-perpetuated through a political mechanism that, even today, is the most static in Europe...
When it finally comes, the solution to the mystery of those radio pulses is both eerie and intriguing. On the minus side, DeLillo surrounds it with so much sophomoric static that the message is nearly drowned...
...Great Dictator. Chaplin, it seems, can do nothing inconsequential. Even this, which many people don't find very funny, seems to delineate the conflicts between silent and talking pictures as clearly as anything ever will. It's so much slower and more static than his silent features, and his persona does not translate well to sound. Once he began to talk, the Tramp was no longer very funny, but Chaplin's Hitler figure, Adenoid Hynckel, stumbled onto the fact that much of sound comedy has to do with an assault on the ear. The Dictator's nonsense talk strikes...