Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell when it gets hotter, but the fad hasn't reached its peak," says Martin Geisler, owner of Manhattan's Per PROTEST BUTTON sonality Posters. Right now the Monkees are the most popular of his 70 posters; other favorites, each for $1, include Chairman Mao, Dracula, the Hell's Angels, Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Ginsberg in his Uncle Sam suit, and Peter Fonda on a motorcycle. Also prized: the offbeat "You Don't Have to Be Jewish to Love Levy's" subway poster ads for rye bread...
...almost as sure a tip-off as a sudden hum from his detector. "When I ask a farmer if we can dig on his land and he says yes, I don't even take the detector out of the car," says Dickey. "But if he says, 'Hell, no,' then I know the place is loaded...
...auditioner (Martin Balsam) appears. Anxious for the part but puzzled by its demands, the actor agrees to become fatter or thinner, remove his toupee, shave his chest-anything. As the real test of his abilities becomes clear to him, he begins to unbutton his shorts with a what-the-hell bravado. But life's little irony is that the playwright has fled, being the sort of man who cannot bear a dirty joke, let alone cast a nude male...
Persona. Director Ingmar Bergman is modern cinema's most persistent observer of the human condition. He examines the Eden that is Sweden and sees-much as Bruegel once did in Flanders-that the occupants are really having a Hell of a time. Persona, his 27th film, fuses two of Bergman's familiar obsessions: personal loneliness and the particular anguish of contemporary woman. It is the story of a great stage actress (Liv Ullman), suddenly become mute and detached while starring in a production of Electra. She is afflicted with what medieval theologians called accidie-a total indifference...
...solemnity of love. Earth's characters are never cast as heroes: there is something slightly ludicrous about them all. That is not new, but Earth sustains those characters with exceptional force and conviction, as if he were trying to enlarge the ludicrous to epic proportions. "Where the hell else but in America," asks one of his characters, "could you have a cheerful nihilism?" Earth is a bit of a nihilist about the novel itself; he is convinced that it is a dying literary form...