Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GAME, by Julio Cortazar. Fifteen eerie stories, among them the brief vignette that ballooned into the movie Blow-Up. All of them deal with today's fashionable fictional hang-ups: Did it happen or didn't it? Is this a daydream or a nightmare...
...Greek consulate described it as a brief, unofficial visit to New York "without fanfare or publicity" by King Constantine, 27, and Queen Anne-Marie, 21, prior to more formal stops in Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal and finally Washington to confer with President Johnson. But nothing ever happens without fanfare or publicity when Actress Melina Mercouri gets involved. The Greek star, relieved of her citizenship and property because of her criticism of Greece's military junta, learned that the royal couple planned to lunch with Secretary-General U Thant. Planting herself like an avenging Athena in front...
...year, then set off to train in Germany when he was 20. There, in Dusseldorf, he learned the romantic lighting and theatrical staging then in vogue, techniques that worked as well on U.S. local color as on Rhine landscapes. Though he lived abroad for most of the brief ten years before he died at 30, his fondest subjects remained the Eastern Shore oyster houses, Chesapeake card games and political fisticuffs back home, and he returned occasionally to refresh his memory. In 1848, when the U.S. was at war with Mexico, he painted his War News from Mexico. From the shirt...
...formal part of the ceremony began as Scott and Ronna knelt facing each other across the low lace-covered altar and joined hands. The vows Apostle Brown led them through were quite similar to those taken by most Christians. Then, according to Mrs. Romney, Apostle Brown concluded the brief service by intoning, "As Peter of old said, I give unto you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven; whatever is bound on earth is bound in heaven; whatever is loosed on earth is loosed in heaven.' I pronounce you man and wife for time and all eternity." After...
Adding to the ferment, two pieces sharply disagree. Stanley Kauffmann explains how he got jobbed by the New York Times for trying to do "serious drama criticism" during his brief tour there last year. By contrast, Benjamin DeMott attacks Kauffmann's most discussed criticism: the two articles he did for the Sunday Times accusing homosexual playwrights of always trying to"invent a two-sex version of the one-sex experience." As DeMott sees it, the homosexuals contribute a valid theatrical experience -"a steady consciousness of a dark side of love...