Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley [Feb. 29] found that, after paying $2 to park their cars about a mile from the area, another $15 at the entrance gate, they got to see very little. They could see the opening and closing ceremonies, the championship figure skaters and hockey players perform their brilliant best, only if they had an extra $50. We weren't even allowed to drown our frustrations at the lovely bar in the main lodge-that also being closed to all but officials and season-ticket holders. We gave up and went home to be greeted...
...outlying sections of Los Angeles. Flashing the spotlight as if he were a police man, he pulled up to parked cars, robbed the couples at pistol point. Local news papers called him "the Red Light Bandit." On two occasions, he forced a woman to get into his car and perform, as the indictments later charged, an "unnatural sex act." One of the victims, a girl of 17, was also forced to submit to "attempted rape." The girl later sank into schizophrenia, has been confined to a state hospital for nearly as long as Caryl Chessman has been confined on Death...
Based on medieval miracle plays, it was first performed in 1634 at the time of the Thirty Years' War. A plague sweeping Roman Catholic Bavaria struck Oberammergau, and its despairing inhabitants vowed that if they were spared they would perform a Passion play every ten years. This they have faithfully done, with few interruptions (including one in each World War), ever since. Over the years, the text has been repeatedly rewritten to suit the taste of the times, and music and pageantry have been added. The latest version was written...
...obviously succeeds, for in The Seventh Seal, Bergman's first heroic hero appears: a knight who delays implacable Death long enough to accomplish "one single meaningful action." He preserves the lives of Mia and Jof (Mary and Joseph)" and their infant son, who will one day ''perform the one impossible trick" of making a ball stand still in the air, i.e., he will transcend nature. The Seventh Seal marks the great divide in Bergman's life and work. With it death and desperation fall away, life and hope appear...
...reason for the failure-lack of faith. His magician-hero, made up to resemble Christ, has supernatural powers, but he listens to rational objections, doubts himself, loses his powers. But in the last reel of the film, after long sufferings in obscurity, the magician is "called at last" to perform in the presence of the King. And in the latest picture, The Virgin Spring, God makes his first miraculous intervention in the world of Ingmar Bergman. On the spot where the beautiful virgin is brutally done to death, a spring bubbles forth from the dry land. And Bergman cries...