Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more to offer than well-disciplined extras. The film is a love story, set in Zagreb during the purge of the Jews in the early years of World War II. A Jewish family is arrested, except for a 17-year-old girl, Ruth (Dusica Zegarac). Loyal Christian friends hide her and, to give her legal status, arrange a marriage with their 19-year-old son Ivo (Boris Dvornik). It is not hard to guess what happens next, or what happens inevitably in the end. Ivo agrees to the marriage out of thoughtless humanity, hurts her cruelly, then begins to fall...
...Juliet Kepes; Pantheon; $2.95) is like skindiving by proxy. One drops into an aquamarine world of luminous blues and greens. There is no more story line than the splash of frogs at play. Suddenly, two herons goose-step into the pond. But the lily pads, like huge oriental fans, hide the frogs from their enemies. Frolicking again, the frogs ride a turtle like a raft. Time for a supper snack of algae and dragonfly eggs, and the frogs' perfect day is done. Mrs. Kepes draws the way jazz sounds, and her book is an improvised underwater lyric...
...that Polish technicians had thoughtfully installed 18 bugs, connected them to a single underground conduit deep in the concrete foundations. In any Iron Curtain country except Poland, foreigners must also apply to a government agency for servants and office hands-who invariably work primarily as espionage agents. "Repairmen" can hide bugs faster than they can be tracked down by security officers...
Balaguer. who had faithfully served the old dictator as President, is nonetheless widely regarded as a sincere and decent man. He appears to have more to be proud of than to hide. There were still scattered reports of strong-arm repressions: 20 arrests in the city of Santiago. the "accidental" death of a youth jailed for ripping Trujillo's picture off a nightclub wall. The government outlawed the far-left Movimiento Popular Dominicano...
Donald Davis' Achilles and Colgate Salsbury's Potroclus are smooth, beautifully adjusted performances. There is no attempt to hide their homosexuality; in fact, their spiritual and physical love is made quite obvious, yet without a trace of effeminacy--which is precisely right for the bravest of the Greeks and his protege. The comedy here lies in their identical wardrobes: whither thou goest, I will go; where thou Iodgest, I will lodge; and what thou wearest, I will wear...