Word: crestings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Contempt), presently riding the crest of the New Wave, began the festival with his most recent film, Alphaville. His hero, Lemmy Caution, is a cross between Dick Tracy and Flash Gordon, spiced with a touch of Humphrey Bogart. (At one point we catch Caution reading The Big Sleep.) Godard lets his imagination run wild as his comic-strip hero battles the computer-king of a super-mechanized science fiction city. Neon signs flash mathematical formulas across the screen, and the computer growls instructions from what looks like a CBS recording studio...
Spikes on Slate. As the dawn fog blew off the crest, Indian jawans (infantrymen) in parkas fanned out along both sides of the pass, their American-supplied automatic weapons at the ready. "There, there on the right the Chinkos have come over the top," said the Indian officer, pointing to the ridge line...
...never known seaweed. Those to the east look out over an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones that Jack Nicklaus has described as "more fun to play than any course I know." Farther to the east stands Mauna Kea itself, whose 13,825-ft. snow-capped crest makes it the tallest island mountain in the world...
Girls & Sewing Machines. It is Vientiane's unique charm to be riding the crest of an economic boomlet as political disaster perpetually surrounds it. Indian and Chinese shops are stocked with Scotch whisky, Benares silks, Dior perfumes and Max Factor cosmetics. But under it all lurks the perennial mood of bo peng nhan (it doesn't matter), scrofulous pi-dogs howl their way past open drains, and the sidewalks under the glittering shop windows are perilous with potholes...
...strong Williams lacrosse team, riding on the crest of a 19-2 win over RPI last Saturday, takes on the Crimson ten at the Business School field this afternoon...