Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plugging people in is the goal of modern planners and urban thinkers, just as building grand boulevards and sweeping plazas was the dream a century ago. Most urban thinkers envisage a graduated form of government. A large, regional body would do such things as policing the environment, building expressways, and providing police. Smaller organizations would provide services such as recreation and education...
...Lantern, which recounts the heroism of a family in the Communist underground during the war against Japan. Madame Mao has ordered drastic changes for the production. She has banished the traditional Chinese orchestra of wind and string instruments. The singers merely stand up before a lone grand piano and a percussion section and intone arias ("I Am Filled With Courage and Strength") while the action takes place offstage. The scene is bizarre because only two years ago the piano was condemned as an instrument for "bourgeois spiritual aristocrats." Now it is revered as a creation of "the laboring people...
...break his own world record. Competing in his fourth Olympics, Connecticut's Bill Steinkraus, a 43-year-old book editor, earned the U.S. its first equestrian gold medal in 20 years when he piloted a borrowed, gimpy-legged, nine-year-old gelding named Snowbound to victory in the Grand Prix jumping event...
...turned out, it was the experts who were embarrassed. The man responsible for the red faces was U.S. Coach Hank Iba, 64, the grand old man of U.S. college basketball from Oklahoma State University. Iba worked so hard at molding his players into a cohesive unit that he lost his voice. They responded by rattling off eight straight victories, including a surprisingly easy 73-58 triumph over Yugoslavia. They also got a big break when the Yugoslavs beat Russia 63-62 in the semifinals-thereby ruling out any confrontation between the U.S. and the favored Russians...
...Bonheur--A concise, smartly paced little picture in grand color, about a carpenter's ups and downs. Agnes Varda, who directed it, may well be the best woman moviemaker working. At the HARVARD SQUARE...