Word: bard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FALSTAFF. Orson Welles may be the first actor in the history of the theater to appear too fat to play Shakespeare's "huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak bag of guts." In his compilation of five of the Bard's plays, some Wellesian genius flickers but does not burn brightly enough to illuminate the long dull stretches...
...happenings and underground movies and interviews with Allen Ginsberg or Timothy Leary. They also offer lots of free verse on the joys of copulation, distinguished from John Donne's comparable rhapsodies by a self-conscious injection of four-letter words doggedly intended to shock. The movement's bard is Bob Dylan (when in doubt, New Leftists always sing). But on the whole the New Left distrusts the hippies and the beats, who want to drop out of society...
...prolific writer of adventure stories, Author Harris knows his way around a war and, in particular, the chaotic landscape of a routed army. His military men are simple enough to recall George Henty, the turn-of-the-century bard of boyhood. But Harris is so skillful that he keeps the suspense mounting in the best of two action worlds: the battlefield and the law courts...
FALSTAFF. Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon domi nates the stage. The film flickers with the glitter of genius-amid great stony stretches of dullness and incoherence...
FALSTAFF. Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon dominates the stage. The film flickers with the glitters of genius-amid great stony stretches of dullness and incoherence...