Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MILES DAVIS: SORCERER (Columbia). Whether scaling the heights or sighing from the depths, Miles's slender, wavery trumpet tone never loses its quirky cool. Always listening intently to his direction are wizard apprentices, sorcerers in their own right. Tenorman Wayne Shorter composed four tunes on the album, notably the tense and shadowy Prince of Darkness. Drummer Tony Williams contributes a mysterious ballad as well as his inspired, erratic drum effects. Bassist Ron Carter lays the undertone for Pianist Herbie Hancock's inimitable brush strokes of color, while Miles quavers the quintessential, kaleidoscopic themes...
...volunteers built the first of 200 triangular-shaped shelters, costing $10 per inhabitant, which will be moved to the camp-in site-as soon as one can be agreed upon. Congressional pressure against allowing the marchers to use federal land is mounting. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall has been cool to the use of the Capitol Mall, where crowds gathered to hear King deliver his ringing "I have a dream" speech in 1963. A likely compromise may be West Potomac Park near the Lincoln Memorial, a magnet for tourists...
...this triumph, the demonstrators can add the wider victory of invigorating conventional channels of reform. Events like those of last week only slightly threaten the fabric of society--they serve chiefly to alert University administrators to the danger of a self-interested community policy or of a cool disregard of intense student feeling on the way the University...
...Belle de Jour with unaccustomed cinematic smoothness. Instead of the brutal bludgeoning in black-and-white that audiences have come to expect from such Bufiuel classics as Viridiana or Los Olvidados, Belle de Jour is composed in color with an eye to elegance that is well suited to the cool beauty of Deneuve...
Michel Deville, who directed her in Benjamin, feels that her burgeoning success is due to something more than the common combination of pressagent and pretty face. Her demeanor is cool as ever, but she has learned to project an atmosphere that audiences find appealing. "It's not really a question of expression," says Deville. "Even the great Greta Garbo didn't change her expression that much. She just created a mood around her, and Deneuve is growing more and more capable of doing the same...