Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuptials of Miss Vicki and Tiny Tim. Adler and Margolies are certainly critical of TV's "scoreboard mentality"-their slides cut rapidly from weather statistics to sports results to air-pollution ratings to war casualties. "Was it 41,000 dead last week," Adler asked TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton, "or was that the attendance at the Giants' game?" Said Margolies: "TV makes participation unnecessary for most of us." Adler chimed in: "Sooner or later, human beings will occupy a small space, for TV is all about sitting you down. Eventually, we are not going to move from...
Actor Richard Burton was rather nervous about his new role ("the most responsible and challenging of my career") as Yugoslavia's President Tito in the movie Sutjeska. So was Tito. "I think he was afraid of being embarrassed," Burton explained. Both of them relaxed a bit, though, after some lengthy confabs about what it was like in World War II, when "Tito" was the code name for Partisan Leader Josip Broz, who gave the Germans a rough time in the Yugoslav mountains. How about a part in the film for Wife Elizabeth Taylor? "She could have played a woman...
...background, Nick works at a book about Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. In Powell, no such detail is ever incidental, and indeed, most of this novel's characters are pervaded by melancholy-in a Burtonian sense of the word-being in the grip of some disabling passion such as sorrow, fear or especially love. Powell's intricate music is still scored for a faintly ridiculous comic dance, but as it launches into the final movement there is a crescendo of grave, dark chords of mortality...
...Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa Oct. 20-26 Boy Nagisa Oshima Weekend Jean Luc Godard CENTRAL SQ. Oct 13-16 The Big Store Marx Brothers A Day at the Circus Oct. 17-19 Ninotchka Greta Garbo Anna Karenina Oct. 20-23 Lolita Peter Sellers The Night of the Iguana Richard Burton Oct. 24-26 Captains Courageous Spencer Tracy Mutiny on the Bounty Clark Gable Oct. 27-30 Grand Hotel Greta Garbo Dinner at Eight Jean Harlow Oct. 31-Nov. 2 San Francisco Clark Gable North by Northwest Cary Grant
...blows his subject out of all proportion: "No writer better than he has ever infused travel-simply getting from one place to another-with such a keen sense of adventure." This to describe Kerouac. But, even granting such a restricted distinction, any travel book by Sir Richard Burton, to name but one other writer, makes Kerouac's sense of adventure seem like a pinball ricocheting in a glass-enclosed prison of lights and bells...