Word: logs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stan Brakhage, 37, a husky hypochondriac who lives with his wife and five children in a log cabin in Colorado, has radically rewritten movie grammar. By fragmenting his films into frames, Brakhage has established the frame in cinema as equivalent to the note in music; whereupon he proceeds to make films with frames the way a composer makes music with notes. His Art of Vision, an attempt to do for cinema what Bach did for music with his Art of the Fugue, is an ambitious example of what Brakhage calls retinal music. One problem: to watch the violently flickering flick...
...called "Dogpatch," and the developers stand to make a pile. Cartoonist Al Capp, 57, agreed to let a group of Little Rock entrepreneurs use his Yokum hokum in the construction of a sort of yokel Disneyland on 800 acres in the Arkansas Ozarks around Marble Falls. "It will have log cabins and Sadie Hawkins Day races," Capp explained, "and things like family trout fishing, which is a hell of a lot of fun if you aren't a trout." The developers will also set up a gristmill to make Mammy Yokum cornmeal and hire a justice of the peace...
...Log Casket. Even these heroic efforts, over two years, failed to win the Montagnards' confidence. Then one evening Dr. Smith chugged into a village and saw, outside a long house built on stilts, a twelve-year-old girl in shock from diarrhea and vomiting. "Her father and brothers were so sure she was going to die," Dr. Smith recalls, "that they were hollowing out a log for her casket." Dr. Smith pulled out her infusion kit, hung a bottle from a bamboo overhead, and stayed up all night dripping fluids into the girl's veins...
...demand for psaltery players and country fiddlers was not exactly booming. For two years, Beers and his family lived in a prospector's log cabin in New Year, Mont., a ghost town where, according to one of their songs, "the people are wild and the coyotes are tame." Their only food was wild game that Beers hunted in the mountains. When possible, they stuffed their 150-lb. psaltery, dulcimer, fiddles, banjos, guitars, buckskin drums and camping equipment into and on top of their Volkswagen and toured the mountain towns and country fairs. Then, when the fad for folk singing...
...Faubus machine vowed to "slap the hogs away from the trough." In trouble, Johnson has not only shown himself eager to shake hands with Negroes, but has also gone hat in hand to seek Faubus' blessing. Faubus, in turn, is urging his supporters to "come to the lick log" (Arkansas argot meaning swallow your pride and back Johnson). Nonetheless, with a private poll showing Rockefeller ahead with 52% to Johnson's 43%, Arkansas should elect its first Republican Governor in 94 years...