Word: maids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inner rhythm as clear-and at moments as soporific-as a slow-rolling drumbeat. The cumulative effect is massive, finally unforgettable. The death of Joan is a nearly wordless sequence that provides a definitive lesson in economy of style, for it shows little, says all. The Maid's bare feet are seen padding over cobbles. Someone in the crowd trips her. At the stake there is a split second of hesitation: then she is chained, the faggots are lit, and her meager belongings are fed to the fire. "Holy Jesus!" calls Joan, and extinction comes as two priests lift...
...same time, with cigarettes under medical fire and new brands proliferating, the major tobacco companies have been anxiously diversifying. Two weeks ago Reynolds announced that it would spend $100 million to buy Penick & Ford Ltd., Inc., a corn-oil refiner whose products include My-T-Fine desserts, Vermont Maid syrup and Cocomalt. Liggett & Myers last year paid $15 million for Alpo dog food. American's move was last, but by far the most spectacular...
Trial of Joan of Arc. With the exception of Carl Dreyer's silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), the numerous films about the martyred Maid of Orleans have contributed very little to art and less to the box office. The subject thus seems a natural for French Director Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket), who for more than two decades has been making austere, praiseworthy, but unpopular movies. Bresson's treatment of the Trial of Joan is characteristically ascetic; but it is also quintessential history, unique and timeless, graced with a master...
...Beware of misjudging me," warns the Maid...
...state senators from New York City charged that Erway was a "Goldwater Democrat" who had voted with the Republicans on occasion, had fought a measure to ban discrimination in public housing. Erway countered the discrimination charge with the feeble defense that he was on excellent terms with his Negro maid, and that during Civil War days his farm had served as a station on the Underground Railroad...