Word: mask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, Hopeless rallies when Connors suddenly squawks: "I want a dame!" Soon Sir Alec is off to the local bawdyhouse. His milksop face a mask of maniacal innocence, he joins the Madam (Mady Rahl) on a couch so voluptuous that his feet don't quite reach the floor. Whereupon, he proceeds to terrify the poor jade with his doubletalking request for the services of a young lady who can entertain a couple of eccentric friends in total silence. Such pimping could hardly be improved upon, which shows just how far an unpleasant comedy has to go to find...
...delivered in accents too angry or authentic for swift comprehension. Yet the lines thrown away are scarcely missed because Lumet crowds the screen with strong, spare imagery built around the fearful mound. After a ghastly ordeal on the hill, filmed from the sweaty side of a gas mask, one prisoner dies, hounded to his doom by a sadistic guard. Subsequently, the entire camp boils over in a cell-block riot that becomes a triumph for the sergeant major-and for Actor Andrews, who struts through the scene with malevolent skill, clearly a match for the best of movie badmen...
...U.N.C.L.E. managed during the summer to stay up in the top ten. But oh what sins producers commit when they begin to counterfeit. ABC's Jane Bond, Honey West (Anne Francis) has all the getaway gadgets -including tear-gas earrings and a garter that converts to a gas mask-but she has not a chance of escaping the banalities of her script. CBS's The Wild, Wild West and Ulysses S. Grant ("The nation is in a pot of trouble, boy") enlist Major James West as a post-Civil War Bondsman. He is outfitted with his own railroad...
Death Threats. As far as Boston's Negroes are concerned, Mrs. Hicks's activities on behalf of neighborhood schools mask an out-and-out segregationist attitude. N.A.A.C.P. Leader Paul Parks contends that despite her "motherly image," she is "tyrannical to the Negro community." Others apparently feel even more strongly than that. Mrs Hicks says that she and her family-her husband, an engineer, and two sons, 18 and 20-have been repeatedly terrorized with death threats. She has taken out a permit to carry a pistol...
...calmness cannot begin to mask the pervading enthusiasm that he brings to the drama of charting new paths along a scientific frontier−a frontier that he sees expanding indefinitely. "We're going to find man flying in space for as long as a year some time in the future," he predicts. "The doom-and-gloom bit about man's inability to perform in a hostile environment has been vastly overplayed." His optimism, however, does not exceed his engineering caution. "We're doing all this within the realm of logic, precision and nature," he insists...