Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corsica came up on the radar screen of the President's Boeing jet, some 5½ hours out of a refueling stop at Goose Bay, the President's pilot got a discouraging report. Not only was Rome getting the rain promised on his long-range forecast, but the storm was worse than expected. Minutes later Colonel William Draper was cautiously circling Rome's Ciampino Airport. Then, assured of a minimum ceiling, he made his instrument approach, splashed to a smooth landing, and pulled up just twelve minutes behind schedule in front of a cluster of Italian officialdom...
...dark screen the words appear: "A G-String Enterprise." Called Pull My Daisy, the film is written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, the least dreary of the Beat writers. The cast is drawn from the highest level of Beat society; Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky all play themselves. As a result, the first pure-Beat movie gives an authentic impression of beatnik habits and tastes...
...Early morning in the universe," says Narrator Kerouac at the outset, by way of scene setting. On the screen, a beautiful but weary woman opens the shutters of her pad. (She is played by Delphine Youngerman, who calls herself Beltiane.) Outside is Manhattan's Bowery; inside are her little boy and, hung on a chair, her absent husband's "tortured socks...
...home movies, the characters on the screen mouth lost words. On the sound track Kerouac talks on, speaking for them. Visitors knock. "Button your fly and go answer the door," says Kerouac for the mother. The little boy opens the door. Enter Poets Ginsberg and Corso. They drink beer and wine, smoke marijuana, look out the window, where "90-year-old men are being run over by gasoline trucks." The audience now knows that Pull My Daisy is not just another she-bugs-me, she-bugs-me-not story...
Behind this screen of mixed religious and political debate, many of the essential economic aspects of the over-population question have been obscured. The countries in which population is increasing most rapidly are often those with the world's lowest standard of living. The improvements of modern medicine have cut the death rate greatly; people live longer, far fewer infants perish, and population growth seems to follow a Malthusian pattern of geometrical progression...