Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SMASHING TIME. En route to fame and fortune in swinging London, Rita Tushing-ham and Lynn Redgrave mug their way through mud, sprayed paint and hurled pies amid a mod bedlam that is more goofy than spoofy...
SMASHING TIME. En route to fame and fortune in swinging London, Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave mug their way through mud, sprayed paint and hurled pies amid a mod bedlam that is more goofy than spoofy...
Chuck Berry slips on stage midst the buttered bedlam, carrying a greasy red guitar. Someone is aware enough to start a smattering of applause. Berry does not acknowledge this, but squats with his back to the audience and tugs at an amplifier cord. Quickly he tunes his guitar, places it back in its case on the edge of the stage, and again disappears...
...Titicut Follies shows that, unhappily, not every institution for the mentally ill is as enlightened as Warrendale. Some are trapped in traditions as old as Bedlam, and one such is seen in this raw, poorly edited report on Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane in the Titicut area of Massachusetts. As filmed by Frederick Wiseman and John Marshall, who had the cooperation of the institute's authorities, the life of the patients seems like an echo of Marat/Sade, an existence bereft of dignity or honor. Old men are paraded naked to their cells and taunted by guards who make...
...White House was in near bedlam last week as staffers struggled against time to complete arrangements for the President's Far Eastern swing. If for no other reason, it was an ideal time for Lyndon Johnson to hit the campaign trail, and so he did - with a bang. Displaying all the old evangelistic fervor of his 1964 campaign, the President made a fast-paced overnight foray into Maryland, New York and Delaware, at week's end prepared for a brief, last-minute appearance in Pennsylvania...