Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this point, The Servant earns A-l references. Playwright Harold Pinter, debuting as a scenarist, writes such deadly efficient dialogue that even talk about the weather sounds ominous. And Losey's camera works every angle, scooting upstairs and down, bobbing from floor to ceiling, peering over banisters. Like an evil-minded snoop, it catches all: every secret glance and unguarded gesture, every telltale truth. Only occasionally does the technique become selfconscious, with one too many shots into rain puddles or oval mirrors...
...weather too is unsettling. Heat and humidity stifle most activity save bathing and eroticism. It soon became clear that Ester's masturbation (long enough in the American version) is a poor substitute for the Lesbian feelings she has for Anna. Anna is not free from reciprocal impulses, but her hate finally triumphs over love in a heterosexual affair with a strange waiter. She taunts her sister with stories about her lover and, in the film's climax, flings open the door behind which she knows Ester is hiding. Cruelly, Anna continues her bed play to torture her watching sister...
...boomers are the city's two newspapers, which have printed no fewer than eleven editorials rapping citizens for grousing about the noise, and Mayor Wilkes, who helped block a move by the city council to condemn the test. And there are several working girls who complained, after bad weather had canceled a 7 a.m. boom one day, that they had overslept...
...exaggerated the Whittier weather picture, as does almost everyone. The snowfall of 70 ft. in one winter is believed by many to have been mostly drifted snow blown off nearby Whittier glacier. Average snowfall is more nearly 240 in., much of which is melted by following rains...
...paintings' titles are arbitrary; Advaitad and Shabda (opposite), for example, means "non-separateness from the impersonal oneness of Brahma" and "a meaningful sound or syllable." The scruffy textures of the paintings suggest weather-beaten walls or the aged face of the earth. Like the art brut, or raw, unpolished art, of France's Dubuffet or Spain's Tapies, these Indian moderns seem to be topographies scarred by glowing fissures, tracks of the varieties of human experience...