Word: classics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insights into character and motivation as well as preserving the wild atmosphere of the original. When Macbeth returns from murdering the King, Lady Macbeth must pry his clenched fingers off the bloody spear--and it is with such moments that Kurosawa shows the eloquence of simple action. The classic scenes and images neither fall flat nor stick out as irrelevant set-pieces. The haggish forest spirit who replaces the Weird Sisters is as eery as they, with her boomy, slowed-down voice. Macduff's advancing army, seen through Fuji's mists, really does seem like a forest on the march...
...auto fanciers the world over, the Rolls-Royce has long been an inviolate classic, almost completely unchanged in appearance since 1906. The Rolls has been not so much a car as a symbol of stability. The idea of altering it seemed to many fully as alarming as abandoning the monarchy. While other classical profiles-such as that of West Germany's Mercedes-succumbed reluctantly to the times, the Rolls rolled haughtily on, confident that it could not improved upon...
...seemed. Actually, in deepest secrecy, Rolls has been working on a new model for ten years. After spending $7,000,000 and employing 270 technicians, the firm displayed the result at ast week's Paris Auto Show: a new Rolls so thoroughly restyled that only the classic radiator grille, though lower and squarer, remains to recall the car's lineage. Rolls designers have chopped off 7 in. in length, 5 in. in height and 31 in. in width from the dimensions of the car's proud predecessor, the Silver Cloud. They have abandoned the old boxy profile...
...having a "Mod look," and the Daily Telegraph exulted that the car "has stepped down from some realm remote from ordinary things and is now 'with it.' " But the style changes shocked and saddened traditionalists. The magazine Auto-Journal observed that by bringing the car "into the classic line of everyman's car, Rolls no longer strikes the eye and thus loses a great part of its singularity and originality." Paris' Le Monde regretted that "Rolls is losing little by little its character of collector's item by making sacrifices to progress...
...Frame is not equal to the task of writing a definitive biography. As professor of French at Columbia University, he has made Montaigne his life's study, and his translation of the Essays is the best since the Florio translation of 1603 and infinitely more readable than that classic antique. But this book does not so much define Montaigne as scramble him. It is as if someone given nothing but the picture of an assembled car and its disassembled parts had set to work, knowing only that each part has to go somewhere. The result is a book that...