Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contributing Stone. Expo's skyline offers a miragelike assortment of architectural marvels, ranging from West Germany's gigantic undulating steel-rod-reinforced tent to Russia's glass-encased structure to Britain's blunted, flag-blazoned spire to the U.S.'s 20-story-high geodesic sphere to the pioneering functionalism of Habitat 67 (where Pearson has an apartment) and Canada's own inverted pyramid Katimavik (Eskimo for gathering place). The unifying theme of the exposition, "Man and His World," is taken from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Terre des Homines...
...during the 45-minute film the viewers move from chamber to chamber, eye-witnessing a re-creation of the Greeks' Minotaur myth. At times, members of the audience see the movie as it flickers on a floor screen; at others, they watch it reflected in a mirrored-glass prism. They wind up in a near-psychedelic setting in which films are projected onto five different screens simultaneously. Another sure crowd pleaser is the Czechoslovakian Kino-automat, at which spectators themselves direct the film (see color opposite...
...Broken Glass. To make its deadline, Expo hired its own expert to speed works through customs, assigned four officials and two armed guards to meet each art work. Heated trucks were on stand-by duty 24 hours a day to transport the pieces to the Expo site because, as the Canadian advisory committee's general secretary, Jean Jacques Besner, says, "We could not risk allowing any of these lovely ladies by Delacroix to catch cold...
...odorless, tasteless, and colorless -- and furthermore it's addictive," said Dr. Timothy Leary, holding up a glass of water before a packed audience last night in M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium...
...shot which shows the image that a character in the movie is seeing. A POV shot that makes us aware of its presence can easily seem ostentatious gimmickry on the part of the director, like the shot in Sundays and Cybele where Hardy Kruger holds up a cocktail glass and we see the room through it as he turns. In Ulysses Strick establishes early such an extreme convention of point-of-view narrative that nothing subsequent seems gimmickry. Stephen Daedalus (Maurice Roeves) walks on the beach as we hear his voice speaking the "Ineluctable modality of the visible" interior monologue...