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Lana's tutors flashed parts of sentences on the screen: "Please machine give ..." Almost always, Lana punched out the correct completion. When the researchers tried to trick her with jumbled syntax-like "Please make machine ..."-Lana usually wiped out the sentence by indignantly punching the period key, which cleared the computer and the screen...
Although visibly nervous and erratic in his pronunciation and syntax, the President used his hour-long press conference in a hotel at Florida's Disney World for a bravura performance. Forcefully he repeated his earlier explanations of various aspects of the entire affair, including his nonexistent tapes, his large tax deductions, his personal finances and his dealings with dairy producers. If there was little new in this, it was extraordinary to hear the President declare: "The people have to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything...
Yankee Monet. The world became permeable. Patterns, arcs, straight lines, enclosures and tangencies now became the syntax of Kelly's formal language, in painting as in sculpture. He did not, in short, start from geometry. Thus Relief with Blue, 1950, whose flaring curves channel the eye into a pale blue slot like a narrow doorway, was suggested by the drapery of a set for Jean-Louis Barrault's production of Hamlet, which Kelly saw in Paris. Other paintings evolved from sketches Kelly made of arches reflected in the Seine, of water ripples, or of shadows on the metal...
...There is an analogy with language," noted Sekler. "Obviously the person who is going to write poetry in the end must first learn grammar, syntax, and orthography." The logic was that if a person was going to create a work of art, he must first learn such principles as color theory. Instead of waiting for a burst of inspiration, the point was to select a problem, work on it methodically, and in the end the creative moment would arrive...
Techniques like this speak the language of the comic strip as much as that of film. A forthcoming book by Francis Lacassin (excerpted in Film Quarterly, Fall, '72) shows how comics contributed many of the elements of film syntax which the sequence has now adopted. Subtle choices of angle of view, depth of field, movements within the composition of each frame, use of the "subjective camera" to pick out important details-all these make up a language which comic strips were using before the development of motion pictures. That film continues to borrow and share these elements is indicated...