Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...19th century English Luddites smashed machines in a doomed effort to preserve the jobs of textile workers. California Rural Legal Assistance, a federally subsidized antipoverty group, does not go quite that far. But last week it filed suit in a state court in Oakland seeking to enjoin the University of California from using state money to develop farm machines. The C.R.L.A. charges that the introduction of more modern mechanical tomato, grape and lettuce pickers will primarily benefit large growers and will cost 120,000 California farm laborers their jobs...
...naive and virtuous American screenwriter-snickers begin here -who is called to Paris to rescue a bogged script. This pilgrim, played amiably and unseriously by Wayne Rogers, arrives with a red, white and blue jogging suit, but soon, heartland morality notwithstanding, is taking his exercise indoors with a beautiful English businesswoman (Gayle Hunnicutt...
...standard for sophisticated light comedy in American pop culture. Unfortunately, The Corn Is Green does not play to Hepburn and Cukor's strengths. This made-for-TV movie, a new adaptation of Emlyn Williams' play, is mainstream sentimental drama. Hepburn plays Miss Moffat, a no-nonsense English schoolteacher who arrives in a poor Welsh town to educate young coal miners. Right away she finds a gifted pupil, Morgan Evans (Ian Saynor), whom she puts into strenuous training to compete for an Oxford scholarship. Despite a few unspectacular mishaps, a happy ending follows with all too deliberate speed...
...Broadway English, it is an applause machine. The Four Seasons is Dancin ', classical style. As he often has in the past, Robbins has made roles that enhance young dancers like Nichols, Watts and Duell. He has also shrewdly exploited the technical gifts of Baryshnikov, whom Robbins calls "a superhuman instrument." (The Fall segment will also be danced by Peter Martins with different choreography and music, to show off his serene purity of line.) On opening night, The Four Seasons was on the program between two Balanchine masterpieces, Concerto Barocco and Symphony in C. Those ballets were brutal competition...
...Stanislaw Lem, a mordant, satirical Pole whose novels and stories have been praised by readers as disparate as Critic Leslie Fiedler and Russian Cosmonaut Gherman Titov. Lem has written nearly 30 books, and his European sales are in the millions. (Ten of his works have been translated into English; most of them were published by New York's Seabury Press...