Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went in the cold Roman dusk to take his place among the Popes buried in the crypt of St. Peter's, to lie between his two namesakes, John XXIII and Paul VI. As the plain cypress coffin was borne through the portals of the great basilica, the huge, tearful crowd standing in the rainswept square burst into applause. At the Requiem Mass that preceded the burial, it rained intermittently. As if to counteract the rain clouds, in his funeral address 85-year-old Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri compared Pope John Paul to "a meteor that unexpectedly lights up the heavens...
...sixties, a novel based on the Korean wartime experiences of its pseudonymous doctor-author, Richard Hooker, had been kicking around Hollywood for several years. Fourteen directors had been offered the property; all turned it down. Director number 15 was Robert Altman, a television refugee with one major picture (That Cold Day in the Park) to his credit. Altman decided to make the film, hired blacklisted writer Ring Lardner, Jr. to do the screenplay, and produced a brilliant black comedy that was a tremendous critical and popular success. M*A*S*H* took the Grand Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film...
...Altman has rendered ludicrous some overused Hollywood techniques of establishing mood and tone, he has developed and refined others. His use of color is particularly striking. The monochromatic brown shading of McCabe and Mrs. Miller conveys the cold bleakness of the northwestern frontier, and the blue tones of The Long Goodbye are appropriate to the twilight world inhabited by Philip Marlowe. Perhaps Altman's most effective, moving use of color to establish mood is in Thieves Like Us (1974), a beautiful, elegiac story of innocent young love in the Depression-era South. He saturates his images with green and yellow...
...trying to promote. The classically liberal outlook of Sakharov and the quasi-mystical vision of Solzhenitsyn--a vision of a conservative, deeply religious and not necessarily democratic Russia--are poles apart. The future to which many of the dissidents look may be one of liberal EuroCommunism--not some cold war vision of right-wing emigres...
...after Papa returned to Cairo last week, his only son, Gamal, 21, an engineering student, married Dina Erfan, 20. The reception was held in a massive canvas tent in the gardens of Anwar and Jihan Sadat's residence in Giza, and the 1,500 guests dined simply on cold meats, lemonade and tea. The entertainment was something else. On the program was a blond singer, a comedian and Egypt's two leading belly dancers. For Sadat, it was a perfect way to unwind after the bumps and grind at Camp David...