Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zeffirelli has an eye for historical detail, and one of his major achievements is to place Jesus solidly within the ethos of 1st century Judaism. At the wedding feast of Mary and Joseph, men perform a chaste dance of celebration. During Jesus' bar mitzvah, Mary gazes with the women from behind the mechitzah (barrier) at the Nazareth synagogue. There are also some deft touches from everyday life. One of the soldiers gripes, "I can hardly wait to get back to Rome," as he ambles down the cemetery path to discover an empty tomb that will change the course...
...insurgency, which the guerrillas call chimurenga (liberation war in Shona, the principal Bantu language in Rhodesia) is now in its fifth year. It is spreading like a malignancy. "It's worse this week than last," an off-duty "troopie" (soldier) declared in a Salisbury bar, "and worse this year than last." Nearly 2,600 guerrillas have been killed since the war began, but at least 2,000 remain active inside Rhodesia, 3,000 are based just outside the borders and thousands more are undergoing training in neighboring countries. The government's defense effort has benefited from the performance...
...been crossing the country in her wheelchair, the CB-equipped Iron Duchess; when last seen, she was on her way to hang-glide off Big Sur, Calif. Swaggering down the aisle, belching and downing a beer at the same time, is Rick, the ex-football bruiser turned singles-bar cruiser. Sitting in the front row is his natural enemy, Mrs. Beasley, the perfect housewife from Calumet City, Ill. Mrs. Beasley's brain is a pincushion of anxiety. "These days it's not enough for a housewife to be loving and neat as a pin," she frets. "We must...
...articulate about this," she adds. "1 know things intuitively more than I know them verbally, but my instincts are sharp. I do a one-liner that says it: "Have you ever seen a man walk up to four women sitting together in a bar and say, 'Hey, what are you doing here all alone?' " Still, she does not intrude her sexual politics into the show, and she makes fun of everyone, feminists included. "What," she asks, "would be your position on women's lib if you were a passenger on the Titanic...
...short is a real gem: "Bach to Bach," with the voices of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. While the camera takes you on a guided tour of the ornaments in a New York apartment, you hear a man and a woman who have picked each other up in a bar and are now trading a series of cocktail party inanities to ward off their nervousness about the whole affair. ("You know," Nichols says, "In the last two hours I can't tell you how my anxieties have been allayed.") Perhaps the comparative brilliance of "Bach to Bach" says something significant...