Word: modishness
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BULLITT. Steve McQueen plays it fast and supercool as a San Francisco cop in this modish, violent thriller about current life styles in the underworld...
...sheath with a Chanel-type jacket and several ascots. Says NBNA's blonde Judy Thornton, who goes by the title of director of personnel development: "A girl can change her look as often as she pleases and still remain part of the overall unified look within the bank." Modish but by no means mod-no miniskirts allowed-the new clothes are only the latest feature of a two-year-old program that trains tellers to do everything but coo "Coffee, tea or money?" The bank's training course offers a session with a hairstylist and instruction in charm...
Proust Is Possible. The New Cinema has been displayed on U.S. screens recently with astonishing variety and virtuosity. Michelangelo Antonioni parodied the modish artsiness of fashion photography to help create the swinging London mood of Blow-Up. Italy's Gillo Pontecorvo faithfully reproduced the grainy style of newsreel footage to restage The Battle of Algiers-a pictorially harrowing exposition of war as an extension of politics. Czech Director Jiff Menzel leaped from tears to laughter in quick sequence to create the moody turmoil of Closely Watched Trains. The "undoable" film can now be done, as shown by the creditable...
...tidy but not its performances, and Director Alan Schneider lets the first act drowse. Basically, the play lacks the athletic snap and resonance of The Caretaker's dialogue and the musky animal magnetism of The Homecoming family. But whether or not he baffles playgoers, Harold Pinter exerts a modish appeal for an age of jitters that likes its comedy sauced with cruelty. He taps the adrenal flow of anxiety and guilt that contemporary audiences bring into the theater with them. Mirrored in his comedies of terror, playgoers can see the resurgence of their own childlike fears, sense their...
...living, are not likely to take the new repression lying down. Once one of the more submissive Communist peoples, the Czechs are now among the most demanding and least obedient. To other Communists, their capital of Prague has become the swinging city of Eastern Europe, where miniskirts are modish, teen-agers dance to a Western beat and long hair flows from the scalps of young men in flowery sport shirts and bell-bottom trousers...