Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kane was about to take his family on a lakeside vacation and thought he might have to postpone his departure an hour or so, but no more, "because riots just don't happen here." He went down to Twelfth Street to take a look. When he saw the smoke on the horizon and heard the first eyewitness accounts of the early violence, Kane gave up all thought of the beach; he knew that...
...Game predicts what might happen in Britain during a nuclear war. Filmed in a small English village, it juxtaposes pictures of people being evacuated, people vainly trying to protect their children by pushing them under tables, people being burned--with reassuring comments by political and religious leaders and scientists...
...quick cutting from past to present to future--from what has happened in wars to what is happening in the world today to what could happen in a new war--can be powerful. But it can also be confusing and annoying. Sometimes the film would have been even more effective without these tricks...
...Javits has decided that it isn't going to happen. For one thing, a man simply does not actively seek the vice-presidency, and Javits concluded that he was making himself look a little foolish. The vice-presidency "is no longer a hot subject," he said in an interview last week. "My present political concern is re-election"-meaning a run for a third Senate term next year...
Exactement! thought Jean-Jacques Lebel, the "pope" of European happen ings. Last week, as part of his Festival of Free Expression, he and his hairy band of happeners staged the show in a blue tent pitched on the outskirts of the seaside resort of St. Tropez...