Word: staticity
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...best defined by shots where the boy alters the light conditions of a room by playing meditatively with the settings on a three-way bulb. Herba makes difficult things look easy; Stranger, for its effortless appearance, is remarkably stylized, proving an entirely successful blend of hand-held and static movement, zoom and fixed-focal-length photography, day-and-night and interior-and-exterior footage--a true synthesis which creates a film reality...
...unorthodox noises from the pit: no violins, huge phalanxes of wind instruments, four banjos, and no fewer than 42 percussion pieces-not including the four pianos, whose keyboards were smashed by forearms and whose strings were struck with cymbals and strummed with fingernails. And the score-simple, severe and static-was the furthest extension yet of Orff's belief that music should be set to words, not the other way around...
Seasons is fundamentally static, and it seems to move more from conclusion to conclusion than from scene to scene. Wesker is good at suggesting how a couple in love becomes the most exclusive club in the world. He registers the fierce chemistry of passion by which the Other Woman swiftly becomes the Only Woman. Where Wesker is strongest he is also weakest, since the language of love is finite and, in his prosaic words, even banal...
...mind went back to a class in semantic analysis earlier that week. "How is an event more complex than a structure?" "An event is more complex than a structure because an event is composed of a structure changing in time. Structures are static and three-dimensional, whereas events are dynamic and four dimensional...
...build up manpower and resupply lines and jockeyed their units into fresh positions. The shifts inevitably touched off some fierce skirmishing, but both sides were, for the most part, waiting to see who would make the first major move. There were signs that, after almost six weeks of near-static defense in which General Giap has enjoyed all the initiative-and subsequently failed to exploit it-the move might well be made by the allies...