Word: michael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent phenomenon. In a play written 2,400 years ago, Euripedes, the most psychologically oriented of the classical tragedians, inspects the poisoned crop that Agamemnon sowed and reaped when his addled ambitions to win the Trojan War brought him to offer the life of his own daughter. Michael Cacoyannis' adept direction gives an ancient tale modern force...
...Viet Nam deserters-four young sailors from the carrier Intrepid-finally found comfortable berths in a hospitable Sweden last week. Given asylum on "humanitarian" rather than political grounds by Sweden's Aliens Commission, the sailors-John Barilla, age 20, Richard D. Bailey, 19, Craig W. Anderson, 20, and Michael A. Linder, 19-marked their farewell to arms by lifting champagne glasses in toasts to peace, expanding on their views before ever-present bands of Swedish and foreign reporters and cameramen and thoroughly enjoying the lionizing adulation of Stockholm's artistic establishment...
...Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin and three others stood indicted for conspiring to violate the Selective Service Act. The charges had been brought after weeks of preparation by Attorney General Ramsey Clark's Justice Department. It all apparently pleased one of the codefendants, however. Said Harvard Graduate Student Michael Ferber: "This is the best thing that ever happened to us." But despite the bravado, he may find conspiracy a tough charge to beat...
...Died. Michael Popp, 62, Ike's Army tailor during World War II who, after the general complained about his bulky, hip-length officer's jacket, snipped out the natty, waist-length "Eisenhower jacket," which became the most popular bit of military wardrobe since the trench coat; of a heart attack; in Hamilton, Ohio...
...problem goes deeper than Nichols' consistent substitution of trickiness for style. A great director, Rosselini or Hitchcock, plans his film as a totality, understanding instinctively how each shot relates to the film as a whole; a competent director of narrative films like Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) plans shots with relation to the entire scene. Nichols, however, cannot plan past a given shot, and although a frame may contain an effective gimmick, camera angle, or background detail, the scenes themselves are purposeless and disconnected, largely due to awkward and self-conscious editing...