Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Munich's Bavarian State Theater performs Woyzeck in German (simultaneous translations available) with brilliant fidelity of tone-stark, spare and stinging. Into a landscape of damnation walks Woyzeck, a simple soldier, poor, puzzled, and haunted by voices and apparitions. To eke out his army pay he becomes a guinea pig for a medical fanatic who puts him on a diet of nothing but peas and exhibits him to his students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne his child out of wedlock. More...
Flame and the Fire. "The beginning of the Space Age is the end of the Stone Age," says Explorer Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau. From treks to Africa, Brazil, Australia and New Guinea, Gaisseau has assembled a film less dramatic than his memorable The Sky Above-The Mud Below, but steadily fascinating as a record of a dozen or more primitive cultures not yet shouldered into the future by civilization...
...some, of course, it was spoor sportsmanship, killing defenseless animals and all, but Nkrumah had made chimps of his soldiers too long, and they had lots of bones to pick. The animals, they decided, were fair game. So while Nkrumah sat in Conakry, turning himself into a Guinea pig and pondering whether he should pack his trunk and join his friend Nasser at his Nile perch, the boared soldiers decided what they needed was some good gnus. One night when they were all croc-ed, they turned the zoo into Nkrumah's Bar & Gorilla...
...Elsa off to captivity in Rotterdam, again in subtle but fairly insistent reminders that Mrs. Adamson craves an outlet for her maternal instinct. More often, though, the film treats animals with deep respect unspoiled by anthropomorphic cuteness; a baby elephant, a furry, gin-thirsty little hyrax (similar to a guinea pig) and a basketful of scrappy jungle kittens have natural charm enough to soften up the most inflexible zoophobe. Born Free strikingly reaffirms the lesson taught by Elsa-that loyalty, gratitude and affability are traits to be cherished in any species...
...with patience and prodigious efforts extending halfway around the world, researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness have managed to inject lab animals with kuru, or "laughing death," an especially mystifying disease of the nervous system that has decimated Fore tribesmen in eastern New Guinea (TIME, Nov. 11, 1957). Eiro, a 13-year-old Fore boy, died of kuru in his New Guinea highland village in September, 1962. A visiting doctor did an autopsy; he took tissue from Eire's brain, froze it, put it in liquid nitrogen at - 70°C., and shipped...