Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church staged by a group of self-styled "destruction artists." Among the crowd-pleasers: Vienna's Hermann Nitsch, who stuffed his trousers with calves' brains, then dragged the bloody carcass of a lamb around the courtyard. Artist Ralph Ortiz and Judson Gallery Director Jon Hendricks had planned to tear limb from limb two live chickens, one white and one black, as a ritual killing symbolic of U.S. racial strife. The event failed to come off when a couple of humanitarian Philistines spirited the birds to safety...
Died. Major General Ivan Agayants, 57, high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, a deputy director in the huge State Security Committee (KGB), whose twin specialties were NATO espionage and the dissemination of "black propaganda" to undercut enemy agencies; of undisclosed causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. As one of three deputies in the KGB's Division I (foreign espionage), Agayants was responsible for the vast Soviet network that was recently the subject of an explosive LIFE article by onetime French Agent Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli...
...make a novel-sized picture, Cheever's skeletal story had to be fleshed out. Scenarist Eleanor Perry and her director-husband Frank (who made David and Lisa) have done so by turning the gothic into the baroque. A little boy cannot be a symbol of innocence by himself; he must be playing a pipe like Pan. To give Merrill's mental anguish an exterior, a vanilla-colored, bikini-clad girl companion is added. To increase the audience's anguish, Merrill is made to out his hand on her stomach and quote The Song of Solomon: "Thy belly...
ANTHONY MANN, a director commonly associated with several good westerns, turned to modern melodrama in his last films, and made some mistakes. For careful balancing of expansive exterior composition, he substituted that betenoir of camera technique, the zoom lens, with its infinite capacity for making an audience think suspense is present when none actually exists. In The Heroes of Telemark, some corny zoom technique was at least in part redeemed by controlled visual construction and a sensible linear narrative. Perhaps A Dandy In Aspic could have similarly transcended its endless zooms to close-ups of anguished eyeballs and urban details...
LESS flashy than Aspic, Donald Siegel's Madigan is a quiet tour de force. Describing his own style as "classical," Siegel (director of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Killers) subordinates camera pyrotechnics to dramatic purpose, his close-ups often revealing an obvious love for the excellent performances of his actors. His stated admiration for Richard Widmark is completely justifiable, and Widmark remains one of the finest and most underrated actors working. Siegel likes to keep his camera on the actors as long as possible, often following them in medium close shot over long distances, thereby establishing character detail...