Word: kineticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MEAN STREETS. Martin Scorsese's kinetic memoir of growing up in New York's Little Italy. A movie with perspective, compassion, some good actors (Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel) and a lot of street smarts.
JIMI HENDRIX, a documentary eulogy to the late rock guitarist, includes a great deal of performance footage intercut with interviews: of groupies, of roadies, of family and friends and peers. The biography that emerges is perfunctory and predictable. There are all sorts of discussions about genius, talent, self-destruction and...
TENNIS: GAME OF MOTION by Eugene Scott. 256 pages. Crown. $14.95. Anyone suffering from tennis toe or tennis elbow should not buy this book. Even a swift shuffle through it will make them want to grab the nearest racket and rush to the court. It is the pictures that do...
Insulated from his devotees by security guards uniformed in white carnations, he spoke in a shrill, small-boy's voice, with only a trace of an accent. In his rambling, anecdotal, half-hour satsang discourse, the Guru said that happiness springs from knowledge of the kinetic energy within each person...
The opening moments of Memories are its finest. The credits flash over a kinetic, desperate dance sequence. The screen is crowded with faces; bodies whirl about to an African rhythm. There is, through all the noise and the music, the suggestion of a gunshot, and suddenly a lifeless body appears...