Very rapid camera movements may express a sudden surge of emotion or a contemplated action, as in the suicide from Umberto D. In The Rains Came (1939), as the heroine realizes with horror that she has drunk from a glass that may be contaminated with typhus, the camera rushes forward to a close-up on the fatal glass, shining in the darkness.
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel," a lavish trove of sharp perceptions and firm opinions, includes the author's vision of her next novel — that is, the present one, foreseen as "spherical and self-contained, but jammed with things, like a spaceship made of Venetian glass, shining, intricate, and full of colors".
Walking on an unseasonably hot late-October morning from Borough tube station to my former picnic spot, I was struck by the way the radical transformation of the area has been achieved incrementally over the last quarter-century: the years pass, brickwork is repointed, newbuilds go up, plate glass shines, bridges wobble across the Thames, and suddenly, hey presto!
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel," a lavish trove of sharp perceptions and firm opinions, includes the author's vision of her next novel that is, the present one, foreseen as "spherical and self-contained, but jammed with things, like a spaceship made of Venetian glass, shining, intricate, and full of colors".
"The beauty of colourful glass shining in the sunlight is a true sight to see," Do said.
Apply one final layer of polish, then buff the shoes with a soft cloth to achieve a high-glass shine.[5].
Next use a magnifying glass to shine a beam through the jar and onto the bundle of hair until it starts to smoke inside the jar.
Through the vertical glass panels shone a faint crescent moon, entangled in the tops of the tall pines.
I looked at the second mirror, where she began to raise a glass of shining water, paused suddenly, and opened her mouth in a lusty yawn.
"Houses with lots of glass and shining metal: Bauhaus style," Ernst Kállai, an editor of publications at the Bauhaus, wrote in 1930, lampooning what we now call branding.
They are all beautifully rendered in blown glass, their shining, spiky capsids (you have to wonder how they get the Windex into those delicate crevices) encasing their destructive RNA or DNA cores, which are rendered as spiraling dots of milky glass.
