Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor members of the Birmingham City Council recently had what they considered a bright idea: Why not establish municipal brothels to keep the city's aggressive prostitutes in one place? The councillors were fully braced for a storm of indignant protest, even though they never seriously expected their measure to pass. Nothing of the sort happened. Instead, the two councillors were immediately besieged with invitations to appear on TV and state their views. Many Britons wrote to congratulate them for forthrightly raising an important question. The Tories complained only that, if there were to be brothels, they should...
...usual aftermath of tearing down a house in one of Manhattan's more dilapidated sections is a drab parking lot enclosed by scabby brick walls. Artist Allan D'Arcangelo, 37, had a different idea. Seized like many another artist these days with the urge to Paint Big, D'Arcangelo grasped at the opportunity offered by a landlord who owns a five-story tenement next to a parking lot in Manhattan's East Village. The landlord agreed to turn over the side of his building to be used for a mural, put up the price...
...Puerto Ricans. "At first," says D'Arcangelo, "they thought it was going to be some sort of a sign, and kept asking which company was putting it up. We kept telling them, 'We are painting this for you.' Pretty soon, they began to like the idea." Only problem: if a new building goes up in the parking lot, there goes the mural, sealed off from sight between old wall...
...male roles are all played by women. But after all this simply reverses the ancient practice, which allowed all-male casts only. A few of the big roles could have stood better acting; yet Jeannette Hume has a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this makes more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
Buried somewhere in Africa is a valid idea. Far-sighted ranchers are indeed beginning to breed wildlife as a partial answer to the world's dwindling food supply. Tors, a director of the World Wildlife Fund, obviously hoped to make a film that would entertain as well as in struct. This one does neither. Africa-Texas Style! has not enough of the real Africa, less of Texas, and no style at all. It patronizes the natives, shows the beasts in badly edited shots that unconvincingly mix footage of wild lions and tame humans. Tors has even included the ancient...