Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television viewer, the President's trip was a remarkable demonstration both of TV's powers and limitations. No written account could convey, as did the live camera, the drama of Nixon and Chou touching glasses after a quarter-century of enmity. At the same time, no written account could be as tedious as a camera searching for something-almost anything-to record...
...self-assured youth guiding the beast forward by the certain force of his pure and adolescent figure. His gaze and grace look to the opposite wall, where his grown-up self seems to stare back from the commanding eyes of a self-portrait of the painter, urging the viewer to join the horse behind an innovative spirit embarked on a journey of artistic adventure. The self-portrait dates from 1901. Gertrude Stein remembers this year,"...one day we were discussing the dates of his pictures, and I was saying to him that all that could not have been painted during...
...casual viewer will be able to deduce that this film is a comedy only by sitting through the long pauses between lines, watching the actors play funny-face. Pocket Money is full of an infuriatingly smug cuteness that adds up to drastically short change for the price of a ticket...
...PRODUCTION'S faults frustrate rather than irritate the viewer because Shapiro's basic failure is not taking fuller advantage of the virtually new medium he so provocatively explores The conventional camera work, reminiscent of television's own too frequent artlessness, occasionally detracts from the experience of watching the show exactly as it detracts from the experience of watching television. A film essay to the music of "Gimme Some Lovin'" is a particular victim of such ordinariness. Fortunately only a few jokes are predictable in the same...
...viewer awaits Andy's awakening to the fact that he is being exploited, and that his own rather tentative manhood is being mocked at every turn. But in the great Hollywood tradition, Scenarist Arnold Schulman opts at the end for those grand old panaceas, universal love and acceptance. "Who am I to judge you?" Andy asks Rosalind. He quotes a little Zen, allows that he loves her, then wanders off, having passed from adolescence to sainthood without even a pause at awareness...