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...play is never really reached. Partly, the fault is simply that the stage and theatre are so small that only the scene inside a peasant's hut seems to have the right amount of breathing space. The woods scenes, despite the set designer's good try, are cramped and static, without even achieving intimacy...
Gulps & Gambles. Exner had his own ideas of what an automobile should look like. "What I wanted," he says, "was a lean, taut look rather than a static look-a look of thrust. People are used to the dart or wedge-shaped theme. They see it on jet planes, racing cars, big racing boats. I thought people would like them, particularly young people, and the young people would sell their parents." Seeing the designs for the first time one chilly day in November 1954, Chrysler's brass gulped, fretted that they might be too strong for the U.S. public...
...Arthur Godfrey. Not only did Godfrey overcome serious communications hazards to beam regular bureeek reports back home for his millions of listeners but, where Stanley merely found Livingstone, Godfrey & Friends achieved the heretofore unheard-of feat of introducing underarm deodorant to the people of the Dark Continent. For a static-free report of the mission, see TV-RADIO, White Hunter...
...eager aunt, bring excellent consistent emotion into earnestly wrought characterizations. After her beautifully timed hula dance during dinner, the high point of the play, the stage suffers from loose writing and looser pacing. Director Lumbard lacked the experience to build through to the end; his staging was often too static and hesitant...
Tranquility is not the answer to the modern dilemma; it is a refusal to face the problem. Modern man will find satisfaction only when he realizes he is bound up with others, directed towards the future, grounded in dynamic possibility rather than in static aloofness...