Word: gores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still occupies Sinai, and they want to know why. If it were not for the prospect of aid from oil-rich Arab neighbors, Egypt's economy would be bankrupt. All in all, times are tough for Gamal Abdel Nasser, who promised his country glory but gave it only gore...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:54 p.m.). Another Hollywood adaptation, this time Gore Vidal's Broadway hit, Visit to a Small Planet (1960), featuring Jerry Lewis as a curious spacenik who spins in from the stratosphere and tries to become an earthling. Repeat...
...down the bad guys with twelve shots from his six-shooter. Since Leone began the whole shebang-bang, Italian directors have cranked out 180 eastern westerns. Some of them, such as For a Thousand Dollars a Day and For Still More Dollars, are blatant copies. Most are long on gore but short on lore. One popular horse opera is set in Minnesota, a notorious badland just across the border from Mexico...
...play's emotions. The costumes, which are contemporary and therefore risk drawing blatant parallels between politics Then and Now, are just suggestive enough. The make-up is masklike, an old cliche of American Greek tragedy--but the Keane eyes and chalk faces are so stark, the scars and gore so real, that this makeup has nothing to do with cliche...
Like Johnson, he is utterly professional, prolific and peripatetic. He is first of all a critic (Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore) who transcends academic specialties with broad, humanistic learning and spirited eclecticism. He is also a journalist and essayist (The Bit Between My Teeth), an intellectual tourist (Europe Without Baedeker), a sociopolitical historian (To the Finland Station), and a fitfully effective poet, playwright and novelist (Memoirs of Hecate County). Through his weighty lucid sentences rumbles a Johnsonian authority whose trenchant insights are alloyed with grumpy good sense, and whose occasional wrongheadedness can be more interesting than many writers...