Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways the direct antithesis of The Play of Daniel. Contrasted with the spontaneity of Daniel. Britten is extremely self-conscious and studied. The libretto, by William Plomer, based on a Japanese Noh-play, presents the story of a madwoman in search of her lost son, in straightforward, narrative manner. It is the music however, not the libretto, which is responsible for the overly calculated effect of the work as a whole. Through his use of a highly declamatory vocal style, with jagged melodic lines. Britten concentrates attention of presentation of the words at the expense of emotional projection. Certainly...
...American judicial system in the person of Judge Julius Hoffman. By focusing on Hoffman's personality as the cause of the defendants' grossly unjust treatment, it tended by implication to minimize the fundamental injustices of American courts. What would otherwise have appeared to be a matter of straightforward political repression suddenly became the last-gasp salvation of an expiring 74-year...
...claims to have shot more film than any other twenty-seven year old alive, and perhaps if he's spent less time behind the camera he'd have a better sense of structure. For Woodstock is an object lesson in how important formal control remains in even the most straightforward of shooting situations...
...false pandering of a psychological manipulator with the good fortune to star himself in his own book. Some of Cowan's self-examination is genuinely damning and elicits little sympathy, such as his cold withdrawal from the Ecuadorian peasants after his skirmishes with the Peace Corps. Cowan is as straightforward about his own feelings as he is about America's, and what he has learned in the past few years disinclines him from expounding on the next...
...example, in one take, two of the main characters are walking past a side street, up which horses are drawing a 20-foot high statue of a head. The two are on their way to a brothel. Trying to understand the head on the side street as a straightforward symbol just doesn't work, because it is not a symbol that relates back to the emotions or the unconscious of either of the two characters in the way that the horse walking down the street in La Strada or the barge in Juliet of the Spirits depended for their reality...