Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk, the rebellious adman this time really does cut loose. Determined to go straight, Andrew (Oliver Reed) leaves the business, the boss, and the ball-and-chain. To further prove his good intentions, he even jettisons his two mistresses. Soon he gets an honest job at the Gadfly, a drab little literary magazine, where his principal duty is rejecting manuscripts. The rest of the time he accepts the adoration of a puddingy secretary (Carol White) who finds him as irresistible as he obviously finds himself...
...kaleidoscopic colors of an oriental bazaar swirled through London's normally drab Heathrow Airport. Clutching bundles bulging with everything from jars of curry powder to television sets, turbaned men, sari-clad women and coffee-tinted youngsters stepped off planes from such diverse points as Cairo, Dar-es-Salaam and Athens. Most of their journeys began in Kenya, where they had sold their businesses at panic prices, paid scalpers' ransom rates for airline tickets and grabbed planes to any place that offered hope of a connecting flight to Britain. Thus last week, in a final, frantic stampede...
What makes this drab case history into a compassionate and likable film is the rare combination of fresh young talents that Italian-born Producer Joseph Janni (Darling; Far from the Madding Crowd) has recruited from British television. Terence Stamp, 28, is the only member of the company with any movie experience to speak of. John Bindon, 24, is an ex-merchant seaman who has never even acted before. Poor Cow is also the first film for TV Director Kenneth Loach, 30, who has achieved a personal, idiosyncratic immediacy with a hand-held camera and ad-libbed dialogue that sounds natural...
...ANIMATION: Marcello, I'm So Bored by John Milius, 23, of U.S.C., begins with an epitaph from the late Erroll Flynn: "I believe I'm a very colorful character in a rather drab age." It then flashes through a quick-cutting kaleidoscope of mindless pleasure seekers-motorcyclists, teenyboppers, discothèque dancers-accompanied by a sound track of sighs and despairing screams. One judge saw in the eight-minute film a viable cinematic equivalent...
...great diplomat who shouldn't have gone into politics. And yet to Canadians, Pearson's brief and peculiarily muddled political career is of great interest, for it establishes the man as one of their own. In both successes of his four-and-a-half year administration, and in its drab confusion and its quiet disasters, he had faithfully mirrored the problems and the character of his country...