Word: avant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Beatle to marry, fathered the first Beatle baby, and now an older John Lennon, 27, is meditating about the first Beatle divorce. After six years of marriage and one son, John has split with Wife Cynthia, 27, and is all about London with Japanese-born avant-garde artist Yoko Ono, 34. "I love Yoko," said John. Yet there's a hang-up-she's still hitched to U.S. Film Director Anthony Cox. Small matter. "I don't think that marriage is the end product of love," explained John...
Whether the substance of the assembly will prove as avant-garde as its style remains to be seen. But the World Council's General Secretary Eugene Carson Blake warned that "the ecclesiastical establishment worldwide had better look hard to try to discern what God is now requiring of us as we are disturbed by the rods of anger." Added Ceylon's Pastor Niles: "Everywhere in our world today events are taking place which reveal that God is doing a new thing among...
...derision of U.S. movie moguls and their rampant commercialism, Pauline Kael is not an art-house snob. She prefers genuine American kitsch, if it has style and verve, to such avant-garde films as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Red Desert and Last Year at Marienbad ("the snow job in the ice palace"). Among her favorite directors are John Frankenheimer and Orson Welles, who provide "clean, fast pacing without the fancy stuff. It goes better with our national rhythm." A onetime experimental moviemaker in San Francisco, where she grew up and attended the University of California at Berkeley, she finds today...
...Italians complain that the bureaucrats who administer it, under a Fascist law originally enacted in 1927, discriminate against Italian artists whom they dislike. Foreigners gripe about the oversize Italian pavilion and the reams of red tape. In the 1950s, when the Grand Prix was awarded to established artists, the avant-garde snarled about outdated academism. In the 1960s, when the prizes went to raffish radicals like Robert Rauschenberg and Julio Le Pare, the rear guard sneered that Venice was falling prey to fashion and backstage conspiracies...
...English is the least of them. The program says that the play is "somewhat like Euripides' The Bacchae," but no one is likely to recognize it. Anyway, thought is the last thought in the mind of Director-Adapter Richard Schechner, who is also editor of the passionately avant-garde Drama Review. His production Dionysus in '69 belongs to the doin generation...