Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directors, may one day be hailed as true innovators in film it is they who pack a succinct story into a few seconds and in the process produce many new cinematic ideas. The work of such directors as Michael Cimino for Kodak, Howard Zieff for Benson & Hedges and Mike Elliott for Rheingold, has precipitated an interplay of ideas that flows freely between Madison Avenue and the conventional movie set. The directors dabble with Fellini-like stream-of-consciousness techniques. Hollywood copies TV's fast cuts and odd-angle perspectives. The quality of Richard Lester's movies A Hard...
...campaigning for the post of Canada's Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau urged Canadians: "Let's take a bit of a chance." He offered the voters "a great adventure of discovery" and insisted that "the important thing is that Canadians are beginning to realize for the first time that this country is a fabulous place." The ideas proved irresistible. Last week Canadians took a chance by overwhelmingly electing Trudeau, 48, their 15th Prime Minister...
...wrong building in the wrong place at the wrong time." wailed the chairman of New York City's planning commission, Donald H. Elliott, who is helpless to do anything about it since the project conforms with zoning requirements. Urbanologists pointed out that the new building would press an estimated 12,000 new office workers into the already overpressed Grand Central area. But New Yorkers' basic objections were esthetic, though few people exactly articulated this, or could have if they tried. A certain esthetic pleasure used to come from the sight of the Grand Central complex-from the north...
...point about Elliott, a professor of English at Syracuse University, is that he still believes things have a point. In fact, sometimes it appears as if he settled on the point first, then invented a story to illustrate it. When this happens, a deadening air of calculation clouds his writing. It is almost as if his critical faculty overwhelmed his creative instinct, for Elliott, at 49, is not only a novelist (In the World) and poet (From the Berkeley Hills) but also a provocative essayist on social and literary issues (A Piece of Lettuce...
Here, and in half a dozen other stories in this collection, the reader feels that Elliott was stirred by the characters and their destinies long before he knew what they meant. The result is that long after the reader grasps the meaning, he, too, remains stirred...