Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EASY RIDER. From the unpromising material of drugs and motorcycles, debuting Director Dennis Hopper has made a strong odyssey starring himself, Peter Fonda and a brilliant newcomer named Jack Nicholson. The film occasionally slips into selfpity; yet the places and the faces of mid-America are true and tragic...
...realities of a cowpoke's life until World War II and service in the U.S. Marines (Purple Heart at Tarawa). After the war and art studies in Europe, he headed West again, where he still spends part of each year on a ranch near Lost Cabin, Wyo. His brilliant paintings and bronzes-of stampeding steers, dust-churning ponies and lean-featured frontiersmen -have the same quality of rough-chiseled permanence that epitomizes another kind of artist, John Wayne, our cover subject this week. As Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer, who wrote the story, puts it: "The usherettes and the popcorn...
When Veeck bought out the twenty-four racing dates of Berkshire Downs two months ago, horseplayers were overjoyed. The reality of a fall meeting at Suffolk Downs seemed virtually assured. Since then, Veeck, a brilliant entrepreneur, has been trying to find his way through the local politicians version of the Porteus maze test...
...gifts, Doris Lessing, is at all times, the lady novelist--and a good one, too. If her sentences sometimes seem too explicitly diagnostic in an effort to delineate complex emotions, she nonetheless never loses a dark, undercut ting humor. Her cynical view of society's absurdities is often quite brilliant, as when she describes...
...whistles to his canary; hearing no answer, he rises and goes to the cage. His head fills half the frame; the cage, the other half. His landlady comes in, takes the dead bird, and saying "no more singing" throws it into a Franklin stove whose open door reveals a brilliant light within. Jannings returns to his breakfast, but between the camera (now further from him) and his head a hanging lamp covers his face, obscuring it and pushing him back...