Word: calle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...requested the University to "disavow the use of straws (front men) and other manipulative devices to acquire land and housing in Cambridge."] Real estate speculators not connected with the University have used Harvard's name in the past when buying land, Whitlock said, suggesting that persons so approached should call...
...decision made many Negroes pessimistic. By next summer, it may be too late. Even ardent Wallacites admit that Richard Nixon will probably be President by then, and many of them know that he has promised to call off the Justice Department suits. So Freedom of Choice may go on, and the schools will continue. And a more violent showdown may come
...story is of a miserable, middle-class marriage in the process of breaking up. It is told in long scenes of indecent emotional exposure involving middle-aged businessmen, silly, frustrated wives, a good-natured call girl and a footloose young male hustler. All of them are compelled to pretend to one another and to themselves that they are having a good time. A good time is "having a lot of laughs," and their laughter-inane, drunken, forced-explodes and cackles frantically throughout the film. They feed one another stupid jokes, lies and childish games to keep the laughter coming. When...
...performers are generally outstanding, especially Gena Rowlands as the call girl, John Marley as the husband and Lynn Carlin as the forlorn and suicidal wife (it is her first professional role). Cassavetes' hand-held cameras move from closeup to unsparing closeup with the agility of a spectator's shifting eye-a spectator, moreover, who must constantly feel that he is committing an invasion of privacy. It is to the film's credit that Faces evokes a slight sense of guilt: the viewer keeps watching, even when he ought to avert his eyes...
...bius Strip. Some of the book's 14 pieces, nearly half of which have previously appeared in magazines, were designed for what is currently called mixed-media performance. To begin with, there is a do-it-yourself Möbius strip that reads (when cut, twisted and joined as instructed): "Once Upon A Time There Was A Story That Began Once Upon A Time There Was A Story That Began . . ." It could go on indefinitely, though once around is enough for anyone to get Barth's point about the cyclical nature of storytelling-or yarning, as he would...