Word: unreality
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...seemed completely at home in the theater, drawing all the score's turbulence from the orchestra without trying to make it the star of the show at the singers' expense. Cecil Beaton contributed dazzling if hardly daring sets, notably a kind of winged pagoda against a distant, unreal blue sky, which suggested that Turandot is not set in a real China but in an exotic region of the mind...
Realism Turns Unreal. He tirelessly sketched models of Greek and Roman statues, studied Rembrandt, Titian, Velasquez, and most of all, El Greco. When it came to his own painting, he refused to be hurried, would go through hundreds of "sittings"-three-to four-hour stretches before the easel-to achieve what he wanted. With a lesser talent, the result might have been dry and academic. Under Dickinson's brush a mystic world of magic harmonies emerged...
These qualms would not have embarrassed the Founding Fathers, who had a healthy 18th century distrust of democracy, and they should not bother Kennedy's supporters. Those liberals who advocate reform of the college in the name of democracy are preaching an unreal politics, for liberal reform has an investment in the present electoral apparatus. Under the system as it stands, counting each state's vote as a bloc favors the states with large urban populations and gives decisive influence to minority groups within these states. Anyone who doubts this can look at the enormous (and correct) importance attached...
Then, there is the film's theme--I found, among many contenders, the conflict between Illusion and Reality most consistently referred to. Bergman seems especially fond of dropping hints that the real danger lies deeper than surface appearance. He emphasizes the unreal disguises of the magician and his wife as one of the reflections of this metaphysical concept--a crude and uninventive metaphor, I find. These admirable, is unoriginal, sentiments appear in a morass of conflicting counter-theories. Accident and the completely gratuitous introduction of the bizarre for mere effect add to the confusion--though they contribute immeasurably...
...CinemaScope wide screen. Although the moviegoer still has to wear flimsy and uncomfortable Polaroid goggles that allow the two separate images on the screen to merge in his mind, some improvement is apparent, particularly in the definition of images. The actors still look strangely diminished, far away, unreal, like little plaster figures in a photographed tableau...