Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinks Picasso overrated, and British art underrated. Says British Painter-Critic Michael Ayrton: "If we in England have one virtue carried to excess, it is our deplorable modesty and sense of inferiority when discussing our own visual arts." As art critic for the weekly Spectator and other British publications, he has waged a hot one-man campaign to boost British art, and denounced Picasso, as "the archangel Lucifer of painting...
...literary angle shots of a great world capital, disorganized and politically adrift. The street scenes-Rome's open black market, the shooting of a Fascist informer by a partisan in broad daylight-read as though they had been planned as paintings, full of sensuous color and clear visual images. Here & there, The Watch has patches of writing as good as anything in Eboli. But its pace is slowed by irrelevant incidents and by tedious, pointless speeches on Italian politics. Few books have so sorely needed a firm editor...
Slides & Flaps. TV commercials started, timidly enough, with an announcer borrowed from radio reading a sales message into a microphone. Quickly gaining assurance, admen branched out with visual demonstrations, optical slides, flap cards - selling methods that are still used, particularly on daytime TV. Then came the filmmakers, bringing with them animated cartoons by Walt Disney alumni, products that marched, skipped and jumped, filmed dramas cast with professional actors whose job it was to sell soap, automobiles, hand lotions and floor coverings...
Unusually flexible in his cutting and camera movement, Lean has translated some of the novel's long passages (e.g., Oliver's birth and workhouse ordeal, Bill Sikes's remorse over the murder of Nancy) into virtually wordless sequences of visual storytelling at its imaginative best. He has molded most of his actors in the image of the Cruikshank drawings and handled them with the controlled flamboyance of Novelist Dickens himself. If any one threatens to outshine the others, it is Alec (The Cocktail Party) Guinness in the horrendous make-up of Fagin. To the character...
...Heavenly Year. At first glance, Wagner and Rollins had seemed a perfect team -the union of a lively and energetic president with a lively and imaginative campus. Like any new broom, Wagner made a few mistakes. Some professors took a dim view of his enthusiasm for visual aids, which he had developed as No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. ("After all," complained one professor, "he did make that startling prediction that only 5% of the people would be reading books in 50 years"). Some students resented his attempts to tighten up Rollins' traditionally free & easy...