Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The songs may camouflage the missing book but they cannot carry the show. Joel Grey tries to do that but the way his character has been written forces him to exhibit either a cocky disdain for others or an egomaniacal worship of self. It is more fun to watch Grey...
Rosemary Ruether, 31, challenges the reactionary character of institutional Christianity in The Church Against Itself (Herder and Herder; $5.50). Married and the mother of three, Mrs. Ruether has a doctorate in religion from California's Claremont Graduate School and is a lecturer at Howard University in Washington. She gained...
Listlessness of Limbo. Agnon's nameless Wandering Jew in this 1939 novel is a fortyish exile returned from Palestine after World War I to the East European town of his youth. Moving into a small hotel, the wanderer becomes "that man who was a guest for the night and...
Like many sequences of this contradictory movie, the primate prologue is overlong and repetitious. Still, it serves to introduce the film's key character: the shining oblong, a mass of extraterrestrial intelligence that supposedly has been overseeing mankind since the Pliocene age. Now, in the 21st century, the mass...
Intermission. By this time, almost 1 hr. and 40 min. have passed, and the non-sci-fi fanatic may feel as benumbed as the scientists in their "hibernacu-lums." In depicting interplanetary flight 33 years from now, Director Stanley Kubrick and his co-scenarist, Arthur C. Clarke, England's...