Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...libretto by Playwright-Film Maker Richard Foreman bristled with the same anarchic spirit. Against a background of film strips and flashing lights, it unfolded a plotless jumble of scenes that might have resulted from a collaboration by Brecht, Beckett and Buster Keaton. "Nobody looks at me," sang one character in a typically enigmatic line, "therefore I retrace my steps." In another episode, a scruffy charwoman incongruously trilled out an aria while brandishing a three-foot wooden spoon at the other characters...
...these adventures were, in fact, initiated by the same Robert Morris, 37, a Buster Keaton-faced Kansas Citian who teaches at Manhattan's Hunter College. He is renowned in avant-garde circles as both the creator of bafflingly simple minimal sculptures and the author of still more baffling tracts in their defense. What seems to bind together Morris' dance, sculpture and writing is one fact: he is apparently dedicated to the proposition that clarity is square...
...narcosis and boredom. Most Bowles characters seem to suffer from a total lack of motivation; they must be seen and interpreted solely in their relation to one another. The poker-faced prose is distinguished by a dry irony and deadpan humor that make Jane Bowles a kind of Buster Keaton of literature...
...Elis won four of six singles matches, with Harvard's wins coming in the middle of the line-up. Captain Brian Davis (three) defeated Bob McCallum 6-2, 6-4. Rocky Jarvis played his usual steady match to whip Bill Keaton...
...cumbrous thing about this novel is the title, borrowed from some lines by W. H. Auden. Otherwise, Balloons Are Available is lighter than air and easily dirigible toward its comic purpose. The hero, who progresses from repairman to executive vice president, is named Howard Ormsby. Part Candide, part Buster Keaton, he is loosed in a land where every pratfall is followed by a commercial. Author Crittenden's best effects are gained through a sort of contrapuntal dialogue. One of Howard's loves tells him the story of her life, including the part about her older brother...