Word: galled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHADOWS. With $40,000, no script, limited talent and plenty of gall. Director John Cassavetes and a cast made up principally of amateurs set up their camera on the sidewalks of New York, and then proceeded with all the mournful rage of inexperience to invent this movie as people invent their lives. Like life, the film has good and bad surprises; like life, it is totally alive...
...even has the gall to exhibit a rather good representational artist. Although Sidney Hurwitz's work may suffer from lack of motion and facial expression, and from frequently poor composition, the boldness of his line and color more than compensate. His style, moreover, is pleasantly diversified, ranging from heavy black outlines containing splotches of color reminiscent of Roualt to rather delicate line drawings of city-scapes...
Despite his age and occasional bouts of ill health (liver and gall bladder), Ulbricht runs his country with undiminished authority, working as many as 18 hours a day. barking rapid-fire orders in his high-pitched voice. There is only a bare pretense of democracy. Technically, Ulbricht's S.E.D. rules not alone, but with four other parties (including a sham offshoot of West Germany's Christian Democratic Party) in a National Front whose united list of candidates is presented to voters at each election with no other choices. After the election rituals, the S.E.D. always gains control...
Unable to straighten up completely because of her recent gall-bladder extraction (TIME, July 7), convalescent Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 35, was further bent by a madding mob of 300 as she was propelled out of Manhattan's Polyclinic Hospital. While some blamed her new tornado tresses on the shoddy protection of her eight-man flying wedge of hospital attendants, insiders suspected the genius of Jacqueline Kennedy's coiffeur, Mr. Kenneth...
Like most F.L.N. chiefs, he is in poor health from years in the underground, and last week was still convalescing from a recent gall bladder operation. His top assistants are also "moderates": burly, talented Lawyer Ahmed Boumendjel, 53. whose brother "committed suicide" while in the hands of French paratroops, but who is himself, nevertheless, a devotee of French culture, with a French wife and a passion for Paris; and Left-Winger Saad Dahlab, 38, a former merchant and a member of one of Algeria's wealthiest Moslem families...