Word: unreality
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...that Americans should have to seek such assurances. In the postwar years when Western Europe's very life depended on the continuing commitment of U.S. troops and dollars, Washington's credibility was not questioned. Is it when Santa moves on to the next house that he becomes unreal...
...gets a tux, she a couple of evening gowns, and they check into Monte Carlo. The luxury, like the poverty, seems hard: there are the same straight lines, the same stark blacks and whites, set off by the flickers of brocade and jewelry. But the hardness is unreal because it has no effect on the people within it. Jeanne lives only for the game and seems not to care whether she sleeps in the railway waiting room or in the Hotel de Paris. Claude, the son of the watchmaker, is impressed with the falseness of the luxury that existed before...
...world outside the casinos is hard and unreal, the internal gambling life is distorted and uninteresting. Occasionally Jeanne and Claude make self-conscious speeches about why they gamble: because it is exciting, vital, and passionate (winning streaks get musical background). But by making his characters play a roulette of hunches, Demy ignores the great tension in gambling between the desire for rational control and the hope of accidental success. Claude and Jeanne never play a "system;" they win in runs on single numbers, at odds of 36-to-1. "Play 17," he tells her. "Why," she asks...
...they can keep their eyelids from drooping at Kwaidan's plots, moviegoers may well be enchanted by its decor. Director Kobayashi imagines a never-never land of vermilion skies and shimmering, silver-green grass, as miraculously unreal as a Japanese landscape painting on silk. Such filmic virtuosity seems almost commonplace, though, among moviemakers of Japan, who sometimes say nothing and say it so impressively that their essays on art appreciation pass for art itself...
...people of Handshoe Hollow are in no sense comic-strip characters -though to bemused social workers their ways often seem as anticly unreal as those of Snuffy Smith or Moonbeam McSwine. While they have few worldly goods and little interest in acquiring more, most mountain folk of Southern Appalachia cling stubbornly to an ar cane way of life and the bucolic virtues-hardihood, close-knit family ties, fierce independence of outside authority-that were the models of an earlier America. With federal funds coming in, no one in Handshoe Hollow goes hun gry any more. Nor are the pappies very...