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...proposals. But then cynicism kicked in as the candidates were forced to adapt to the destructive realities of too many primaries demanding too much money for too many negative ads. Desperate to know the candidates, all that the voters in the 15 March primary states heard was the irritating static of petty politicians sniping at each other with exaggerated charges and counterclaims...
...plain black brush strokes to sketch a woman's face in "Tete,"--or Dufy, who uses a charcoal pencil to delineate contours without filling in the flesh of bourgeois French men in "Personnage"--the figures create a dynamism that only modern art evinces. This visual movement strongly contrasts the static and frigid characters of nineteenth century French artists like Ingres and David, whose canvases present both form and content, with the former prevailing...
...life in the ranks of the upper middle class on the upper West Side of Manhattan's West Side. He is a lawyer with a seemingly bottomless ability to dish out verbal abuse to his wife, and is a thoroughly repellant figure. She, on the other hand, is a static person, spending her days wandering through museums and selecting the correct pattern for that year's Christmas cards...
Oddly, Snodgrass is no more static than the other characters in the film; her husband seems headed for a life of merely annoying everyone around him, and the "celebrities" with whom they associate are fools caught up in fads. Despite the film's humor and high sarcasm, it captures the dark, oppressed life inside the mind of its heroine. She is a selfunderstanding alien in this land of shallow monsters...
...film, adapted from a James Hilton best-seller, captures the growth of an individual in a static society. The film paints the contrast between the formal and intimidating nature of the school and Chips' own warm personality. The slow movement is more than compensated for by the perfect production and direction...