Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...often opposing batteries of TV spots merely cancel each other-or backfire. In the Utah senatorial contest, Republican Representative Laurence Burton posed sitting on a horse, his shirt open. The candidate looked so uncomfortable that Utah's cowboys and city folk laughed him off the screen and out of the race...
...Atlantic; of a heart attack; in Paris. His Hollywood successes include The Great Waltz and The King and the Chorus Girl. After serving with the French Resistance during the war, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1950, Gravey returned to the French stage and screen (Harvey, La Ronde) and finally brought his flashing smile and Gable mustache to Broadway as the star of Beekman Place...
Small lives are not the stuff of spectacle. They are not performed on a vast screen to the fife and drum of a Colonel Bogey March. Unfortunately, Director David Lean seems to have become so obsessed with historical immensity (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago) that he has lost the capacity to focus on the troubled existence of ordinary people. The loss is plain in his wide-screen nightmare, Ryan's Daughter...
...Mike Alexander passed for two first-half touchdowns in leading the Eliot gridders to the triumph. A long aerial to Art Serrano netted the first tally midway through the first period, as the winners quickly established their game plan. Late in the first half Dick Manny hauled in a screen pass from Alexander and bolted 15 yards for the score...
...Last. I began feeling very sick and at length had to leave the theater. I know exactly what caused it too, even without having felt it before: sitting in the dark and looking at each formal event, each cultural artifact being presented to me on the screen, as a piece of human design whose significance had to be read. Presumably closer and closer viewing and speculation would reveal a more basic design-some corner of the way things work or perhaps the way people's minds work (there's always a confusion in bourgeois philosophizing about which...