Word: fleetingness
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A PHOTOGRAPH fills different needs at different times in life. One of our deepest needs comes in early childhood. The world around the child is shifting and fleeting and unreliable and hazardous. It cannot be retained; it is constantly slipping away. To a child, a photograph gives a permanent thing...
The team, with lacome coach Emmet Creed looking over them from his watchtower, works to master a pattern of behavior in which words break down into animal sounds while separate actions are ordered into a working whole. Their game is not mock warfare. Though the players find a timeless ecstasy...
At the ballet, the event of the evening was the shout "Freedom to Viet Nam!" from a woman in the sixth balcony. She was the wife of a Moscow correspondent for the pro-Communist Italian newspaper Paese Sera; she was questioned by police but not arrested. It was the Russian...
This is a first feature for former Character Actor Steve Ihnat (remember the drunken Texan who beat up Mar lon Brando in The Chase'?). Ihnat bears partial responsibility for writing this lackluster plot, although as a director he fares a good deal better. Unlike most fledgling film makers, Ihnat...
Buck and the Preacher is the best of this bad lot. Directed by and co-starring Sidney Poitier, it is at least competently made and has a few, fleeting moments of genuine fun. Poitier plays Buck, a guide whose job is to get wagon trains of poor blacks through the...