Word: beatnikism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Illya Kuryakin. (David Mc-Callum) nearly takes the deep six in a sea of soapsuds when he turns beatnik to trace the source of a gas that causes its victims to hiccough to death...
...coup!e. It is a setup calculated to have the bleachers cheering as the pro-Communist pair outwit the villainous security men. The proletarian hero investigates the investigators and exposes his three persecutors as 1) the husband of a convicted shoplifter and father of a reefer-drag ging beatnik son, 2) a collector of fancy ceramics specializing in Victorian toilet bowls, and 3) a queer...
...second-stage lift to the career of Michael Parks. As Adam in John Huston's movie version of The Bible, Parks wears little more than foliage. In this befuddled study of London's dashing young set, he vigorously fleshes out an even barer role as a beatnik U.S. artist...
From Tel Aviv to Coventry, the cities of Western Europe and the Mediterranean have lately been afflicted with a phenomenon familiar to the U.S.: the beatnik. Unwashed, unshaven, unregenerate, clad in turtleneck sweatshirt, Levi's and sandals, the European variety is often armed with a tin cup and either a guitar or colored chalks to wrest pennies for wine and smokes from sidewalk patrons. Britons, who tend to consider eccentrics national assets, regard their beatniks with tolerant amusement. Charles de Gaulle's police have been trying, with scant success, to shoo them out of newly scrubbed Paris. Chancellor...
...Bresler-Duddy to help develop a "just-out-of-college, freshly scrubbed image" for Bobbe. A dentist corrected "a Terry Thomas gap" in her teeth, and she was put on a strict diet. Hairdresser Ernest Adler gave her a swirling, swept-back do, Rosemont's wife dumped her "beatnik clothes" for a wardrobe at Bergdorf's, and Cosmo Serchio draped her in $15,000 worth of new gowns...