Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Characteristically, Kurosawa employs, at one point, a series of close-ups of increasing detail to take you some-where--in this case to lead you upstream to the villains' headquarters. He used this trick in Seven Samurai. Three such close-ups introduced the scene of the villagers' conference at the beginning of the movie, till at last you could tell that those really were people squatting in a circle and not a brood of chickens...
...evening in Paine Hall began with a croak from the horn. The first piece on the program was Webern's arrangement of the Ricercare of Bach's Musical Offering, and the theme of Frederick of Prussia's is first stated by the horn alone; admittedly it is a dirty trick to play on the unfortunate hornist, but it is a common enough practice, and this particular player was not up to it. He also succeeded in spoiling a large part of the orchestral accompaniment to the soprano in the Beethoven aria Primo amore, piacer del ciel. In the second half...
...them, is clear and careful. His hands speak in economical, controlled movements, suggesting surprise as they flatten on the cage walls and horror as they push against them. His broad mouth and wide eyes go from smile to shock with none of the obvious self-satisfaction in a welldone trick. Though some of his comic material is childish and inane, Weisman's actions provoke our willing laughter, especially when he's playing in home ground, being the snoring student in lecture or the pretentious flamenco guitarist...
Last week Government doctors announced that they had turned the trick with a coated capsule that bypasses the respiratory system and releases a dried and purified version of the live virus in the intestine, where it multiplies and starts antibody production. The virus, called adenovirus Type 4, causes a severe, grippe-like illness, and sometimes viral pneumonia, especially among raw recruits in military camps...
This production wasn't just another series of already mastered gimmicks. Often I've found myself watching plays at Harvard and saying, ah yes, that trick with the voice, I saw that before in--, or that wonderful way of walking, no one can do that like she can. But Three-penny was a world of its own. I got interested in the delapidated characters, even when they crossed me up. At the curtain call I found it hard to shake the impression that they were half-imaginary people...