Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder what Sigmund Freud would say about the tiny whip...
Every time I read about a religious recluse, I wonder what our world would have been like today had Christ chosen to cloister himself rather than give his great love and knowledge to the world...
...youth acquiring every sort of face but one of his own. He became a brilliant actor by painful necessity, since he is by nature diffident, introspective and not particularly articulate unless he is pretending to be someone else. "I've got so many inhibitions that I sometimes wonder if I exist at all," he says. "I have no desire to play Peter Sellers. I don't know who Peter Sellers is, except that he's the one who gets paid. Gary Grant is Gary Grant-that's his stock in trade. If I tried to sell...
Christina Wilhelm's choreography is uniformly excellent, and well executed throughout. Mark E. Talisman's louvred set is ingenious, but the combinations of panels might have been more distinguishable from one another. During the overture, the audience may wonder what it has got itself into, but James Hughes' orchestra warms up after that. The costumes, designed by Arnita Mongiovi, are dazzling...
...case in point is the prison scene. The day of D.W. Griffith has passed, and sheer numbers on the screen no longer amaze anyone. Kurosawa, however, manages to restore our old sense of wonder by taking his shots from impressive angles and by composing each sequence powerfully. We watch a limitless mob suddenly spring to life in their enormous dungeon; at the peak of their fury only the tips of their improvised clubs are visible, flailing fiercely up and down in the prison gloom. Then the camera shifts to the hill outside. From a point at the base...