Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once, to dramatize his feeling, he brought plain rice balls, wrapped in bamboo, to a flower-viewing party. After eating, he unrolled the bamboo wrapping upon the air. It was overlaid with gold leaf and painted by himself with mountains, birds and flowers. Casually, he tossed it into the stream...
Kinko Riding a Carp is a reversal of that gesture-not reality drowned but imagination borne upon the stream. The energy of Korin's brush reflects the lightning lift and speed of human imagination, which is capable of almost anything, even of riding on the back of a fish. His art also mirrors Taoist thought, which regards "everything as destroyed and everything as in completion . . . reaching security through chaos.'' Asked where he had got this idea, the sage Nu Yu replied: "I learned it from the Son of Ink. The Son of Ink learned it from...
Miss Miller said she had waited for a stream of cars, but did not see the bicycle when she started the left turn. When she noticed it, she stopped the car in time to prevent a collision, but not before Miss Rawle had skidded in an attempt to stop...
...Horse's Mouth (Lopert; United Artists). The stream of consciousness, as it comes boiling out of Gulley Jimson, the painter hero of the late Joyce Cary's masterpiece of monologue, is a wizard's brew-wine of genius mixed with just plain sewerage-that may be too rich for the average moviegoer's blood. Cary in his book (TIME, Feb. 6. 1950) displayed the Irish talent for tirade in formidable measure, and he revealed a teeming and generous vision of life, a Rabelaisian sense of comedy. To make a straight commercial movie out of such...
Inevitably, the Jimsonian stream has been carefully filtered of what the censors would call impurities, and in the process much of the essential, grandly unsanitary, superbly healthy quality of Cary is eliminated too. Also absent from the film is Cary's seething energy, but Guinness supplies in its stead a stiff charge of farcical effervescence; and thanks to him. the mixture is never merely sweet. Every now and again the screen even exudes an earthy, salty, gingery, sweaty, whisky whiff of the essential Cary...