Word: tripodic
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Lest you get bored with the long interior scenes, Godard has greased every pivot on his tripod so that the camera often wheels about the room. In fact, Brialy occasionally hops on a bicycle and rides around the dinner table. By contrast, Godard has inserted five minutes of candid shots on the Paris streets which, grasp their subject matter so naturally that you never think of him trudging about with a bulky cinemascope camera. The abundant use of jump-cuts keeps the films pace fast and your eyes blinking for the entire 90 minutes...
There is proof, too, at the Whitney show that older sculptors are still going strong. Lipchitz looks more curvy than cubist in his bronze Lesson of a Disaster, a tripod sprouting flames. Noguchi's smooth, pierced-granite Black Sun continues to exploit Oriental eclecticism in graceful abstraction. But the average age of the Whitney's choices is 43. Even younger sculptors are experimenting with new approaches to the object. Some may make sculpture from...
...lands, served as Nikita's iceman when Khrushchev decided to re-refrigerate the thaw in Soviet art and literature two years-ago. Significantly, Shelepin is now the only man in the leadership who simultaneously holds top rank in the Presidium, the Secretariat and the Council of Ministers-a tripod power base that Khrushchev alone previously enjoyed. As chairman of the Party and State Control Committee, Shelepin is also the watchdog of Russia's entire economic and administrative life, and his chairmanship of the State Control Committee gives him handcuff control over party apparatus...
After big disappointments like these, one begins looking for the little things. Like the dissolves which are out of phase. Or the photographer, Christian Matras, who didn't use a hydraulic tripod so that shots meant to be arty pans come off in irritating shakes...
...tinkly bells of the Salvation Army caught his ear. In front of the banks, the rich begged for the poor, the woman in her large black coat planted like the tripod next to which she stood. Muhammed Speaks, next to her, retailed brotherly love...