Word: hopscotch
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Until that dawn of destruction, the best advice is to go merrily, merrily. For "the deepest insights sometimes emerge from a joke, a gag, or a slap in the face," says Argentina's Julio Cortazar, author of the highly praised fantasy-novel Hopscotch and of Blow-Up, the short story turned hit movie by Michelangelo Antonioni...
...musical concerns itself with a pair of schoolgirls who spend off-hours spying on a concert-stage idol (Don Ameche). When he is not pounding the keyboard, he dallies with suburban and urban matrons. The music is tuneless, the lyrics witless, and the dances could pass for mass hopscotch...
...musical concerns itself with a pair of schoolgirls who spend off-hours spying on a concert-stage idol (Don Ameche). When he is not pounding the keyboard, he dallies carnally with suburban and urban matrons. The music is tuneless, the lyrics witless, and the dances could pass for mass hopscotch. What less...
...these surreal situations are en countered in this collection of truly scary short stories by Argentina's Julio Cortazar (Hopscotch), who lives and works in Paris. One of the stories, Blow-Up, provided the plot for Antonioni's hit movie. Another describes the sordid death of a musician who strongly resembles the late Charlie ("Bird") Parker. Perhaps the most affecting of all is the title story, which explores the daydreams and posturings of three lonely sisters in an Argentine suburb...
...talent. Employing three screens simultaneously, Director Art Kane offers a portrait of the games children play. With the vision of a painter, he observes a group of kids as they run exuberantly, following the leader who jumps from screen to screen. He also explores the varied geometric patterns of hopscotch courts, and shows a group of boys fighting each other on a pyramid-like peak to be come. "King of the Hill." Kane's wittiest photography shows a contest of shadow tag seen from above. The children's heads are tiny, their shadows elongated and spidery...