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...human flash for the heathen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giuseppe Ungaretti | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

...provide are the sorts of cures that kill. Where the play cries out for a locale--a definite fix in time and space--he has staged it with settings as homey and identifiable as the mountains of the moon, and costumes suggestive of a Bulgarian re-make of Flash Gordon. The addition of a sort of light show-cyclorama, beautiful as it may be in the abstract works largely to complement the confusion...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, AT THE LOEB MAY 2-4, 7-10 | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...flash, he makes the existential choice to completely break with his past. Ferdinand becomes Pierrot Le Fou. He acts. He grabs a huge chunk of cake, flings it at the Beautiful People, and bolts out the door into a world of ecstasy and destruction. Like a desperate gambler, he is going for broke. As with Michael Poiccard in Breathless, it is all or nothing...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, AT THE ORSON WELLES | Title: Pierrot Le Fou | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...them you may either flash the warming smile as if to say, "Isn't jogging refreshing and aren't a lot of people missing something," or else you stare him down, a warning to look out for you in the Marathon because "look how fast I'm runing without even breathing and I can go so much faster." At any rate, you contemplate the runner, figure htat he'll be at the starting line, and wonder if you can beat him. Man is a competitive animal, remember...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Jock, Beef Stew, and the Boston Marathon | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...unorthodox and refreshing. Though most West Germans worship the auto as a status symbol, Heinemann neither drives nor owns a car. Nor does he have the customary built-in German reflex about respect for authority. When a reporter inquired if he loved the state, Heinemann replied in a rare flash of annoyance, "I love no states. I love my wife. That's all." That just may be enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Winner Gustav Heinemann | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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