Word: statics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fault lies less with Hamilton, perhaps, than with Dore Schary, who wrote, produced and directed this static movie version of Hart's book. What was unflinchingly straightforward in print has been sentimentalized, rendered limp and lifeless on film. Hart's parents, who never understood their ambitious son, become stock figures of Jewish folk comedy. The late, irascible Kaufman is ably impersonated by Jason Robards Jr., whose perpetually aghast eyebrows seem to sense the serious trouble in the script. Appearing at intervals are a galaxy of vintage celebrities, such as the Algonquin Round Table in toto and a struggling...
...idea of a 110 minutes cutting of the three-and-a-half hour play, will approve of Welles's condensation. His use of panning camera motion animates the long dialogue sections he retained from the play's late acts, particularly the soliloquies which on stage tend to be unbearably static. This vividness and motion more than compensate for the confused nature of the early scenes, in which Welles's attempt to speed through preliminaries makes a prior reading of the play advisable...
Another obstacle to unity was that "the Council accepted the static image of the non-Catholic Christian as simply an individual, not recognising his group tradition of piety, faith, and confession," he said...
...West Germany's economy has given off some static recently with the ominous crash of several industrial giants, including Automaker Carl Borgward and Shipbuilder Willy Schlieker. Last week another big one swayed perilously close to collapse...
...engine now being developed by North American Aviation, 'Inc. Each F-l will have 1,500,000 lbs. of thrust, and a cluster of five will lift the great moon-bound rockets off the ground. But the F-l also vibrates, sometimes so violently during static tests that it threatens to explode. North American believes that the trouble will soon be licked, but this is a lonely confidence...