Word: twitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touchstone of Holbrook's marvelously timed acting command of the role. He knows that an old man does not collect his thoughts but wool-gathers them, that an old man's legs do not walk but must be lifted, that an old man's hands twitch vagrantly like an infant's in sleep, that an old man's eyes sometimes glow like blown embers and sometimes fade out as swiftly and secretly as dusk. Yet within this fraying husk of age, the man from Hannibal stands vibrantly whole, incorrigibly acute, a genius of uncommon sense...
Warner, as Morgan, catches every kink and twitch of a natural misfit who can only sense progress when he is swimming against the stream. In his world of fantasy, he is brutal, primitive. To the world at large, he looks rather more like an adolescent giraffe perpetually swallowing the lump in his throat. The real world gains on him when, armed with several lethal weapons, he confronts his rival, "a greasy art dealer," and hoarsely croaks: "She married me to achieve insecurity-you can't take that away from her!" The point is almost proved by Vanessa...
...BURY, 43, is a slow-motion artist. "Speed limits space," says the Belgian. "Slowness multiplies it." So Bury builds well-wrought wooden sculptures concealing tiny electric motors that twitch in a random, nearly subliminal manner. At first glance, his sculptures seem static; then by degrees the spectator becomes aware that they are gently trembling and jittering with insectile gestures. Like molecules jostling to the ceaseless rhythms of Brownian movement, they express physical uncertainty and ambiguous motion. "Watch a plane in the sky," says Bury. "It barely seems to be moving. The eye is no longer able to trace the action...
...range of a telephone dial tone," that Pickwick's "cast, whether it is singing, dancing, talking or just plain standing around, always seems to be just plain standing around," and that the Danton's Death lead, Alan Bergmann, "has a face that not even a fly could twitch-there is not an expression, a glance, an emotion that could cross it (not even, I suspect, a shadow...
...Overture, New Orleans jazz, rock 'n' roll-went, in effect, in one ear and out the other. They left him unmoved. On the other hand, the soft, sweet rhythms of Stardust, Deep Purple or Abide With Me gave Morton frightening seizures. He would stare vacantly, twitch, turn his head to the left, make smacking sounds with his lips, utter growling noises and sometimes slump to the floor. The Whiffenpoof Song and Indian Love Call were bad, but not quite so disturbing...