Word: flippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. Julie An drews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing and Bea Lillie flip through some oh-you kidding dialogue and some ricky-ticky tunes in an otherwise lackluster musica...
...casting. An actor in the mugging tradition of Toto and Fernandel, Philippe Noiret is excellent as the pawky, paunchy husband; and Catherine Deneuve, as his restless wife, is as light and tart as a lemon soufflé. They and their fellow farceurs prove that in the right hands the flip side of war and the flop side of marriage can still be made fresh and funny...
...this shift came the fresh realization that audiences and their attitudes have changed. They are younger and they carry more intellectual clout. Says Karel Reisz, who directed Morgan!: "The literacy gap between the people who are making films and those who are seeing them has narrowed." The kids still flip for spoof spectaculars like Goldfinger, but they just don't believe in 40-acre bathrooms and proscenium-size smiles. "The grand image no longer awes the spectator," says Director Claud Lelouch (Un Homme et Une Femme). "He recognizes a smooth but forced décor and performance as unnatural. There...
...latest sample of the Beatles' astonishing inventiveness is their new single, Strawberry Fields Forever, the flip side of which is Penny Lane; it is now No. 1 in England. Written by John Lennon and McCartney-who has lately developed a passion for Electronic Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen-Strawberries is full of dissonances and eerie space-age sounds, achieved in part by playing tapes backward and at various speeds. This is nothing new to electronic composers, but employing such methods in a pop song is electrifying. At present, the Beatles are giving up tours and personal appearances, plan instead to devote...
Cries of "Yes! Yes! YES!" greeted the first entry in the aerobatics division, as the plane mounted to the ceiling in an intricate ascent. But its glory was short-lived, for it flip-flop-flapped cumbersomely to the floor. John Pesando and Bill Tennant's tosses, however, both had flashy curves, and the two were asked to repeat their throws...