Word: crookeder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disasters follow briskly. Ants. Unions. Overflowing toilets. Insufficient rain. A crooked contractor. A love affair with an alcoholic actress. Insufficient working capital. Island politics. And then an earthquake cracks the cistern that holds the resort's entire water supply, the naive native bankers turn out to be as rapacious...
The Crooked Road. "You had me framed on a murder charge, you brought me here as a prisoner, you shot at me, you poisoned me-and then you laughed," says Robert Ryan. The tirade is not meant to be funny, but it neatly sums up this untidy, unintentionally laughable melodrama...
ROMARE BEARDEN - Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. "As a Negro," says Bearden, "I do not need to go looking for 'happenings,' the absurd, or the surreal, because I have seen things out of my studio window on 125th Street that neither Dali nor Beckett nor Ionesco...
The exposé also led to a new career for Salinger. In 1957, a big story was Dave Beck, the crooked boss of the Teamsters Union. Collier's Magazine assigned Salinger to write a series of articles about Beck, but the magazine folded before Pierre got into print. During...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Late Show addicts should not panic if they don't recognize this film: it is not a rerun. Universal Pictures has embarked on the production of feature-length films made for TV only, on the theory that if TV addicts...