Word: mori
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROTC deliberations, hearing representative from Harvard's Air Force and Navy ROTC units. Captain Thomas Moriarty of the Navy said that if Harvard took away ROTC's academic credit, the Pentagon would cost the college $50,000 a year to make up for lost ROTC units. Captain Thomas Mori-campus...
...great." Some musicians, however, profess to find them a nuisance. Mothers Manager Dick Barber complains that groupies are in such ready supply that it is "pretty hard" to get rock bands to morning practices or recording sessions, "and sometimes hard to get them on the bandstand at night." Josephine Mori, public relations girl for a rock record company called Elektra, calls groupies "piranhas" and says: "They have no appreciation of the person they go to bed with." Marty Pichinson, a drummer with a rock band known as the Revelles, disputes that description-but he sometimes does find groupies too much...
...fiercer. In their own way, his fragile panels and boxes, smeared with black wax and ornamented with tarnished jewelry, Victorian wallpaper, girlie postcards and other detritus, shock and edify much as does a scabrous Matthias Grunewald crucifixion, or the death's-head kept as a memento mori by medieval princes...
...Belgium's Vic Gentils, 46, another assemblagist in the Modern's show, evokes nostalgia by limiting his palette to destroyed pianos. He reassembles them into memento mori. His Berlin-Leipzig could suggest a defunct trans-European express train, or simply what he could do if he had added woodwinds and brass. Not everything new is off key. A newcomer at the Modern, German-born Mary Bauermeister, 30, believes that there is more than one way to look at a painting. She boxes pen and ink scribbles, beasties and the progress notes of her work beneath Plexiglas layers, scatters...
...Idiot was not released in this country until Kurosawa had established a reputation with his samurai films. For one thing, many of the actors are prone to excess, in one way or another. Toshiro Mifune, as a rowdy, alternates between bug-eyed rage and glowering indignation; Masayuki Mori, as the idiot, plays everything in a kind of sad-eyed slow motion that conveys saintliness but also causes boredom; and several secondary characters engage in the snorting histrionics that seem peculiarly Japanese. Moreover--presumably because The Idiot originally ran more than six and a half hours...