Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When there is a coincidence of talent (which happens now about half the time and will no doubt happen more often when a large audience incites the cast to comedy) Carnival is riotous, though riotous gives you no sense of the tender and gentle emotions which overcome an audience shaking with laughter at Thurber's humor...
...letter explains that Rusk failed to resolve their doubts then, and contends that recent government actions have caused student "disaffection" to increase. The letter will warn what will happen if the Administration refuses to clarify its present policy...
When movies depict the past, that past generally becomes the immediate present of the audience. We watch events of long-ago happen before our eyes, and are content to take a temporary departure from the Twentieth Century. But the films of John Ford make no attempt to take us into the past; they are about the past...
Ford bitterly laments the intrusion of reality on his legend. When Hallie says to Stoddard at the end, "This country used to be a wilderness. Now it's a garden. You helped to make it," we cannot help feeling a deep regret that it had to happen that way. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is Ford's deeply personal farewell to a period in American history he loved, a folklore he helped create. Ford's westerns represent one of the most significant achievements in the history of American art. Liberty Valance, his masterpiece, is one of the greatest films...
...rare brooding moments, she worries over how to perfect her craft. "I find myself occasionally elaborating on things a bit too much," she says. "I hate my voice most. It's always higher than I expect and more childish. It annoys me. The best things I do happen suddenly by accident. I have to be acting something out with other people...