Word: utterer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poet-a bad one-will imagine everyone sitting round the hearth, and so forth. But for a painter it will be, quite simply, a collection of flat colored shapes." Such statements have since become the cliches of every art school, and Gris was by no means the first to utter them; his ideas, in this respect, derive from earlier French art theorists like Maurice Denis. But Gris held to them with passion because (apart from any other considerations) they were not cliches 50 years...
...escalator stairs are not numerous enough; my cry would be heard by 200, perhaps 400 people. But what about my 200,000,000 compatriots? I have a vague premonition that one day I will scream out to all those 200,000,000. But for the moment I do not utter a sound, and the escalator carries me irresistibly to the nether world...
Altman riddles the movie with moments like this, keeping viewers constantly off balance. He jumps deftly from satire and black comedy to utter seriousness and back again as he introduces new characters. The scenes between Sterling Hayden and Nina van Pallandt (as the drunk, impotent writer and his enigmatic wife) are moving and terrifying. But suddenly, another character enters the picture--one time it's Henry Gibson, playing a creepy little shrink--and the film makes an abrupt, exhilarating shift of gears. Like the rest of the movie, the syrupy musical score can't be taken too seriously...
...know the thing a freakoid cracker hates most in the world? Platform shoes on a male. In any hip crowd you can spot the freakoid cracker. He'll be looking with utter disdain on the guy flying around with the four-inch platform heels. The English mod look...
Solzhenitsyn challenged the Soviets to expose and punish those responsible for the mass slavery and murder he describes in Gulag. "What a catharsis that would be for the country!" he exclaimed. "Yet they say not a word, utter no moral judgment on all the executioners, the inquisitors and the informers." Instead, he said, "as soon as the West German radio announced that Gulag would be broadcast for a half-hour daily, they frantically rushed to jam it. Not a single word of this book must penetrate our country. As if they could stop...