Word: woven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theme is Hitchcockian: a demonstration of the way private sexual obsession has a way of spilling over into public, with murderous consequences (Vertigo). There are innocent bystanders drawn dangerously into a closely woven criminal web (The Man Who Knew Too Much). Even the murder that is the film's central incident-a perhaps too ghastly knifing-reminds us of the famous shower-bath murder in Psycho, as does a splendid, spooky score by that film's masterful composer, Bernard Herrmann. More important than these specific references to glories past, however, is the Hitchcockian discipline De Palma brings...
...brutal actions of the American government can never be undone. To our everlasting shame, they remain woven into the fabric of history as vividly as the bomb craters that pockmark the Vietnamese landscape. Yet this week we can take one small step to acknowledge our responsibility, to make a gesture of friendship, to begin to move away from conflict and toward a growing community of mutual understanding...
...from the tailors' way of seaming together strips of fabric, which were then reinforced with a decorative vertical band called an orphrey. Orphreys might be relatively simple-as on the Met's heavily restored 14th-15th century Spanish chasuble, with its complex design of formalized pomegranates in woven velvet split by an embroidered ornamental band with figures...
...Woven from Bruce's life and words, Julian Barry's play tells why by lifting the audience out of the kingdom of facile judgment that Bruce reviled--the kingdom where the tribe, clad in patchwork dashikis, determines that the man who gives it up for God is best, the man who doesn't is second best, and the man who talks about it is dirty." Barry gives us the whole brash, bitter, sex-loving, comic...
...effect is dazzling, reminiscent of the British film Dead of Night (1946) that resolved itself as one dream enveloped by another. Each episode of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is consistently amusing and often hilariously shrewd. The film is a miniature Decameron woven together by a shot-repeated several times-of the six characters walking briskly along a country road. They are pilgrims in a bucolic purgatory, condemned by Bunuel for their militant mediocrity...