Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Splendor in the Grass (Warner). Director Elia Kazan, who for about 20 years has exerted a powerful but often Freudulent influence on the art and ethos of the U.S. stage and screen, is a man who believes that every slice of life is a Wiener Schnitzel. The theory works pretty well with the plays of Tennessee Williams, which Kazan perennially directs, because most of Williams' characters are merely engaged in a morbid game of tag your id. It works less well with the plays of William Inge, which Kazan occasionally directs, because most of Inge's characters have...
...behalf of the Eisenhower Administration's massive deterrent policies, left wounds that pain to this day. Beyond that, and despite his own mechanical inventiveness, Wilson was remarkably blind about the basic research that leads to new technological revolutions. Said he: "Don't worry about what makes the grass green or why fried potatoes turn brown." Wilson was a hardware man, and he could see little sense in projects that did not have an obvious military value. Even in 1957, when Russia entered space with Sputnik I, Charlie Wilson was scornful. "Why worry?" he asked...
Natalie Wood has every reason to feel exhilarated: at 23, she is just about the raciest filly to come down the Hollywood sound track since Liz Taylor. Her new pictures, both slated for mid-October release, are Splendor in the Grass, a bitter harvest of frustration and failure written by William Inge and directed by Elia Kazan, and West Side Story, the widescreen, cinema version of the Broadway musical tragedy, in which Natalie enacts the poignant role of Maria with a carefully coached Puerto Rican accent and dubbed-in songs...
...production of light industrial goods. Near Tientsin, a cement works normally employing 6,000 workers limped along with only two of its eight kilns operating, in some months shut down completely, and has now been converted to the production of "substitute food"-a ground-up mixture of hay, grass roots and other plants. Elsewhere, factories in need of spare parts or raw materials are standing idle. Families are now rationed to 2½ ft. of cotton cloth a year-"enough to patch my pants," growled one refugee who fled to Hong Kong. Faced with a leather shortage, there...
Furniture? In Los Angeles, in addition to artificial grass, the well-to-do often rent their minks when they travel to cooler climates. "I can't mention any names," says Rent-a-Mink's Lillian Feinberg confidentially, "but a lot of our furs went to Washington for the inaugural." Many stars rent automobiles, for as business and professional men learned long ago, renting meant none of the headaches of car ownership, and the monthly statements make for handy documentation of business expenses. Some people who have difficulty obtaining automobile insurance have no such problem with rented cars. Claims...