Word: makers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Those sniping at our Guardsmen-we're not going to ask them to stop." he said "They'd better be prepared to meet their Maker...
...called Beginning to End, assembled from Beckett's novels and cemented together with passages of his poetry, radio and stage plays. The two have extracted from Beckett's life work the single figure of the Beckett tramp, Fool without his Lear. Now the tramp was confronting his maker in rapt concentration. Intense and difficult listening: this Beckett, like a Bach sonata for unaccompanied violin, is a music compacted of roughnesses and silences, almost demanding of the audience too the explorations and repetitions of rehearsal in order to flower in performance...
...villain is Scott Craig, a freelance film maker with a terminal case of what psychologists call affectlessness. Like a jet-set Sade, he rushes around the world anxiously seeking aesthetic forms through which to resolve his conflicts and act out his sexual obsessions. Craig's films include features about his secretary's sensuous mouth, copulating dolphins, even a reel starring a belly dancer's navel that smiles, frowns, bites and becomes a puckered keyhole through which a documentary collage of 20th century horrors may be ogled. Out of context, the man sounds comical. But the harder...
Visiting with Charles Eames evokes a kaleidoscope of images rather than words: he defies labeling. Eames is the designer and architect, the artist and film-maker, the scientist and philosopher. Perhaps the connection is his gift as problem-solver- whether it's in designing a computer exhibit for the new IBM building or in joining a metal support to the back of a chair...
...mergers. When Representative Emanuel Celler charged that LTV's debts exceed its salable assets by $171 million, Ling replied that the consolidated balance sheet was "not really meaningful." He reasoned that LTV's interests in some subsidiaries, including Braniff International Airlines and Okonite, a wire and cable maker, were undervalued because control of a company normally commands a premium over the market price of its stock. He also claimed that LTV's debts were over stated because the company does not guarantee most of the debts of its part ly owned subsidiaries. For example, though LTV controls...