Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes. Impatient males ( watching the new tapes for couples must put up with five or ten minutes of character and plot development before the clothes finally come off. Says Sexologist John Money of Johns Hopkins University: "Women are turned on more by the story line and men by the visual image, and that's a very basic sex difference...
...Coens are superb writers and great technicians, and a great deal of the fun in the film stems from their smooth competence. They'll strap a Steadicam to anything that moves, and the results are sometimes extraordinary. Even if some of their visual jokes are stolen--like the Mad Biker blowing up bunnies with a hand grenade--they remain surprising and funny. The sequence in which H.I. is chased through a suburb by the police, a heaving armed albino convenience store clerk, and a pack of dogs deserves a special Oscar for Gratuitous Tension in a Feature Film...
Abstraction is unavoidable, but a constant barrage is numbing. We need to revive the often-ridiculed visual aid. Dave--Birdboy--kept himself happy and sane during a word-processor stint for a Shakespeare class by scrawling verses from favorite plays all over his soccer ball. We laughed at him, but kicking and bouncing Mid-summer's Night Dream around the room kept the computer from sucking Shakespeare...
...speakers are "plant stands...they are purely visual," the owner of a local stereo store said...
Davies' style is rabidly visual, propelling the chaos onwards with a manic mixture of anguish and humor. A character stopping at a video store prompts this description...