Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jane sets out in a pink spaceship, complete with psychedelic color effects and a cozy computer reminiscent of 2001's HAL. She heads back a year later in the arms of a beautiful blond, blind male angel (John Phillip Law). In between, she meets some topflight actors who are all too lost in space-Marcel Marceau as the wizardly Professor Ping, Claude Dauphin as the President of Earth, Ugo Tognazzi as a friendly inhabitant of Planet Lytheon. Her only really amusing encounter is with David Hemmings, an inept leader of the Lytheon underground who has a hankering...
...English version by Poet-Translator Paul Roche is both dignified enough for the classic matter and nimble enough for the modern manner, in which the actors and chorus are deployed all over the amphitheater, not just in front of the royal palace. Orson Welles is appropriately resonant as the blind Tiresias-though he appears so massive that it is hard to imagine his having been turned into a woman, as the legend has it. Lilli Palmer's Jocasta manages to be at once regal, sexy and maternal in this famous Freudian archetype of mother love gone...
...like wind-up toy soldiers, under the hypnotic spell of unquestioned tradition. The firing begins; the hoofs and bodies and blood combine. Screams and guns seem to reach beyond the screen. The hysteria and terror are as palpable as dust; the slaughter is a testament to the inanity of blind obedience. By itself, the scene is confused and intense. It is harrowing, and it is magnificent. But it does not make a movie...
...newspaper which looks like the New York Times in format, and sprinkle through every story such phrases as "the New York Times stinks" and "Anyone who thinks the Times is telling him the truth is blind," I have not created a very sophisticated parody of the Times, if I have created a parody...
Dudley House, under the leadership of Master Thomas E. Crooks '49 and Joe West '70, has organized the cabaret, which it hopes to continue on Saturday nights throughout the year. "It will be a place for people to gather, to meet, and to enjoy live entertainment--without getting scalped blind in the process," West said yesterday...