Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867) indeed grasped the Minotaur by the tail; most scholars since then either evade the issue or take the beast by the horns...
Based on a beast-seller by Dodie Smith, the picture took three years to produce, cost $4,000,000, soaked up 800 gallons of paint, and during the passage of its 101 Dalmatians through 113,700 frames of film, places exactly 6,469,952 (count 'em) spots before the moviegoer's eyes. But it is the tale that wags the picture...
...film by all odds is the best part of it. Visually, the pounding wild-horse chase and the magnificent archetypal battle between man and beast that ends the chase are hung like a grand, insane mirage against the glittering salt flats. Dramatically, the main themes of the film, mercifully disburdened of Miller's words, resolve themselves in fluent and exciting action. Symbolically, the image of innocence ruthlessly hunted down and indifferently converted to dog meat makes a shattering comment on an aspect of modern life. But the rest of the picture-despite skillful work by Director John Huston...
...only mechanical part of the whole process is the making of two or three legs-or perhaps four: "That's a beast or two people." The titles are an afterthought, for Chadwick's purpose is not to express any idea. "Some people want to say something visually," he says. "But I want my work to be considered for itself. What interests me is the physical result, the form, the object rather than the idea." Then why bother with making legs at all? Answers Chadwick: "One must start from somewhere or else there is chaos. And I couldn...
Center: E. J. (for Emil Joe) Holub, 22, Texas Tech; 6 ft. 4 in., 217 Ibs. "The nation's No. 1 lineman. Runs the 100 in 10.5. He's a pro right now-they don't call him 'The Beast' for nothing...