Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last cover from a cousin working in South Korea. All the leaders' faces had been brushed with ink, though the text remained unchanged. Under Korea's anti-Communist laws, sample copies of magazines must be shown to the Ministry of Culture and Information, which decreed a partial blackout for TIME'S 5,000 subscribers there...
Chart of Evil. The experience is a distortion of Sir Edward's early gropings in the darkened theater. But now the blackout is permanent, and the laughter an echo of hell in which there can be no conclusion without calamity and no denouement without death. As More, Nicol Williamson moves through the film with a looming rage that is Shakespearean in its intensity.* Bathed in such solar glare, the other actors are lit only by reflection. Karina looks and sounds a tart, but she has little of the compelling eroticism that the part requires. At his worst, Herve should...
...preparations it has made against attack. Hundreds of brick blast walls stand on sidewalks in front of doorways. The entrances to a few public buildings are heavily sandbagged. Windows and car headlights are painted blue?the ancient color for warding off the evil eye?to conform to blackout regulations. In erratic fashion, street lights are out in various places. Soldiers slouch in the shade of girders on each of the Nile bridges, and guard the Cairo airport, the railroad terminal and key road junctions on the sprawling city's edges. Sonic booms occasionally rattle the windows of Cairenes...
Wednesday, May 7 CBS PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).* Daniel Massey, William Shatner and William Windom star in Loring Mandel's Shadow Game, about a group of people who are trapped in a business office during a power blackout, and learn more about each other than they ever knew when the lights were...
Effects of a Blackout...