Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contended that TWA's summer bookings had not been affected by the tragedy. One fiscal casualty: the airline was forced to postpone an 8 million-share offering last week. Before the disaster, Erickson noted that "we like to think of ourselves as a 72-year-old start-up. The trick is to get the market to remember our glory years but forget our most recent history." It still...
...impressive enough that Paltrow holds your eye as a parade of lovelies and virtuoso actresses (Greta Scacchi, Polly Walker, Juliet Stevenson) march past. But her finest trick is to provide a comic subtext to Emma. She both lives inside the character and encases her, giving her glamour and the lilt of parody. Paltrow is to Emma what Emma is to her friends: a helper, a tease and a judge. Thanks to Paltrow, Emma stays lovable, partly because both are in their early...
Gorton followed Dresner to Moscow and encountered in Dyachenko a shy, intelligent and idealistic young woman who for some time recoiled at even the most mild American-style dirty trick. "But it wouldn't be fair," Gorton recalls her saying when he advised that Zyuganov be trailed by heckling "truth squads" designed to goad him into losing his temper. At their first meeting across a long table covered in green felt, Dyachenko confided, "I don't know this business. I don't know what to ask." For a few weeks, says Gorton, "the task was simple education, Campaigning 101, stuff...
Splashed color is not the only cinematic self-indulgence on the part of Demy. He also treats the audience to a variety of trick shots which to the contemporary eye seem comical in their overtness. As the lovers stroll through Cherbourg singing their famous duet, it is obvious from their utterly still arms and legs and their perfectly even gliding motion that they are not walking at all but being towed on a dolly, though the shot shows only their upper halves. An attempt to innovate on the diaolgue scene has one of the actors singing directly into the camera...
...Britain, film art lagged. Stage actors were ashamed of their film work. The trick, as John Gielgud says with a smile, was to "Shut your eyes...and think of England." Britain's most gifted director, Alfred Hitchcock, didn't think of England; he learned his trade from the Americans and the Germans. On the set, instead of "Action!" he'd cry "Achtung!" Cinema Europe reveals him as an impishly sadistic fellow--he is seen lifting an actress' skirt while she tries to rehearse. But Hitch could make movies; Hollywood saw that. He went to the U.S., as had Lubitsch, Lang...