Word: swirles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the voice of controversy has stilled," Kissinger said in reference to the arguments that swirl about the Presidents he has served, "all that will matter will be whether what was done made a difference, whether it marked an episode or an epoch. We are living through one of the most difficult periods of our time. Some say we are divided over Viet Nam; others blame other domestic discord. But I believe the cause of our anguish is deeper. Throughout our history we believed that effort was its own reward. Partly because so much has been achieved here in America...
...below swirl the icy black currents of the rushing St. Lawrence River. Snow-laden Arctic winds whistle past, and for an instant, at least, the feeling is that of being atop a giant, jagged iceberg floating downriver past Montreal. Inside the iceberg, though, all is snug and warm; a baroque symphony dances across the huge living room while the champagne bubbles and the soft lights glow. This is Habitat, the magnificent living complex designed by Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie and built on the tiny Cité du Havre peninsula for Canada's Expo '67. For a surprisingly long...
Polanski takes occasional excursions into outright fantasy, as when Macbeth has a feverish dream following his second meeting with the witches. But the scene is visually uninspired and mechanically clumsy. Faces and images swirl up out of the hags' cauldron, spin about, dissolve, disappear, as if in some hybrid of hallucinogenic nightmare and the kind of antique special effects that looked awkward over 25 years ago in Hitchcock's Spellbound...
...creations of other American China watchers are not quite so authentic. Designer Donald Brooks takes elements of classic Chinese styles, such as mandarin collars, flowing sleeves, frog closings and lush prints, and incorporates them into his high-fashion line. Characteristic is a simple dress in red with a white swirl print, banded and sashed in black with a mandarin collar and frog details, which sells for $315. Mrs. Richard Nixon has been observed trying on a few Chinese-styled Brooks dresses, leading to the presumption that she will wear them if she goes to Peking with the President. Brooks says...
...even Marlowe's poetry could save the film from its stylistic pretensions--no important line was let past without the screen quivering in peculiar effects of light and color; no setting lacked a quality of manufactured gloom. At its climactic worst--as Faustus prepares for damnation--red blotches swirl round his head, and music builds to a crescendo. Burton grimaces in the best Burton fashion, and Faustus is swallowed into hell. All told, it was a disaster of sufficient proportion to make me doubt whether any film could treat classical tragedy cinematically and not contaminate it with effects of style...