Word: stridently
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...night of consummation. But in the film, everything seems slightly "off." The lighting, which in the earlier period scenes was dense and murky, is here bright and unrelenting. The camera stands back too far to encourage the viewer's involvement in an intimate scene. The acting is oddly strident and ragged, as if a failed first take had somehow made it into the final...
Until recently, Peking has seemed to be reasonably understanding of the necessarily ambivalent U.S. position. Just last year, for example, the Carter Administration authorized the sale of more than $500 million in American arms to Taiwan. Peking said very little then, but the strident language emanating from the Chinese these days marks a significant change in attitude. Before Secretary of State Alexander Haig's visit to Peking in June, the Chinese issued a series of warnings, each blunter than the one before, expressing opposition to American arms sales to Taiwan. The outcry culminated in a front-page declaration...
...detectives are something of the classically mismatched partners. Pablo is a prissy fussbudget, a wheezy bureaucrat. Clemenson flounces through the role in grand style, with his nervous gestures and his half-exhausted grandiosity (he tires before he can really come through). His gestures become more frantic, his reasoning more strident as he is the antithesis of Louis, who prides himself on his logic and dispassionate aloofness, and his slightly cynical humor. The two wander around the outline on the apartment floor, the play delves into the absurd and it is full of discordant, funny bits. All of this changes, however...
...time, Bermuda, just six hundred miles off the coast of South Carolina, and with Massachusetts perpetually hanging over its head, was the most exotic place in the world you could fly to from Boston for a hundred bucks. It was late August and the Square was too strident. There are only so many times you can sit through the midnight movies or eat ice cream on Bailey's shaky chairs. There are only so many people reading poetry by the Charles you can stand--especially if you're working in a wheelchair factory. It behooved you to make the hundred...
...that feeling of go-to-hell individualism, that heady velocity, that separates Raiders from its more strident counterparts. It's not a movie that's trying to fake an adventure so much as it is an adventure, both as fiction, and as a movie. The story, the directing, the acting--all of the elements--are just a little out of control, careening just a little too fast. And yet, almost impossibly, it manages to hold the curve. Spielberg and Lucas have brought high adventure both back into movies and, indeed, into movie making...