Word: mists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eerie Mist. Within several hours some 500 police and extra guards were rushed to the jail. Commissioner of Correction Benjamin J. Malcolm and Peter Tufo, the unpaid head of the city's Board of Correction, arrived and bravely agreed to enter one of the cell blocks held by the rebels in order to negotiate. Donning gas masks, the two men crawled through the hole in cell block 6 into an eerie tear-gas mist. They then asked the tense inmates for "delegates." Seven leaders - who carried homemade shivs and wore blankets and towels around their heads as a protection...
...fine-lined wood engravings, Lawrence invests each miniverse with whimsy and bite (from "Inky Smudge": Judge, to "Noah's Ark": Park); his pageant of animals educates almost as much as it amuses. Perhaps the most diverting beast of the season is the dragon of Magic in the Mist (Atheneum; $4.95). Margaret Mary Kimmel's happy reptile-illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman-is the best igniter since the match...
...boulders dropping from water faucets and beds disintegrating into feathers and splinters and sawdust, seems whimsical in retrospect. Another disconcerting take, of endless peasant faces and worn bodies soaking in Yugoslavian mud baths, ends with its own soft fade: the camera moves away as the people move away, and mist from the warm mud interposes. A film by a Boston filmmaker (they try to have one in every group of shorts) based on Anne Sexton's poem "Old," has the same quality: two schoolgirls scamper down a staircase in a sepia print, and a minute later the scene repeats...
...expectations-perhaps because of proliferation of Bicentennial products. Doubtless anticipating such a reaction, Crestline, a well-established maker of colonial furniture, has come out with what might be called an anti-Bicentennial ad. Beneath a photo of the familiar fife-and-drum trio marching off into the mist with backs turned to the camera, the ad asserts: "Soon 1976 will be gone, along with the bicentennial. All the hooplas will be over. And all the guys who made a fast buck in Early American furniture will be looking for something new. And so it goes. Except that there will still...
...dirty city mist...