Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must Die (French). A modern Passion that makes one of the screen's most powerful religious statements in years...
...Edward G. (for Gratiano) Vanbrugh, a seedily broke antique dealer in a shabby English provincial town. His principal stock, symbolically enough, was a menagerie of Staffordshire China figures-shepherdesses, sailors, heroes of the past. As his narrative unfolds, it turns into a gallery of historical portraits redone by a modern caricaturist...
...modern Vanbrugh who tells the story, he is a nobody, but he has a spiv's eye for survival, the derisive eloquence of a shameless man and the bogus kind of face that, as he suggests, would go well on a butler or a bishop. As Author Linklater tells it in his savagely comic novel, Vanbrugh spent a profitable war as a wingless wing commander in the R.A.F. and ends his career as a superior flunky in the household of a Texas aristocrat. Says he: "I see my destiny, I recognize my genius ... but England, I have not abandoned...
Bishop Pike (ABC, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Christ in Jeans, BBC's modern-dress filmed Passion play that roused British TViewers last year (TIME, April 14). Christ wears denims, the Virgin Mary looks like anybody...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic...