Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sure Marisa Berenson has a pretty face, but why run her as an "overbred, vacuous, giggly and lazy" cover subject [Dec. 15] when the true fanfare belongs to Stanley Kubrick, the most innovative person to touch motion pictures since Thomas A. Edison...
...twice. In early January both Universal and Paramount will start production on $12 million remakes of the 1933 classic. Universal believes that the film will gross somewhere between Jaws and Earthquake. Paramount's director Dino de Laurentiis declaims boldly that King Kong "is still the most exciting original motion picture event of all time...
...thwack of my helmet against the seat confirms Newton's third law of motion. The air is piercingly fresh, and the desert mountains glow golden in the morning sun. But soon the drive will become a spastic, three-hour Cinerama focused on 100 miles of lifeless mesquite moonscape-beginning in Laughlin and running across sand washes, over mountains, around canyons and back. "Howdy doody!" Evans yells, skipping the yellow truck over a 5-ft. ravine. "I can't stay away. Racing off-road is like narcotics to a dope addict...
Last week's turmoil came after a month of hearings on a motion by the N.A.A.C.P. seeking to close Southie entirely. The motion maintained that conditions in the school were so bad that it was impossible for students to learn. Testimony by black students underlined that charge. One black girl said that a policeman assigned to Southie held down a black student while a white student kicked him; another black testified that a white student came to school on crutches, claiming that they were his new "nigger beaters." A third charged that a white student picked up a chair...
...conception of his art: "the highest endeavor of human spirituality." This canvas transcends paint to become an audible as well as visual experience. Red and blue curves rotate across the black and white disks of the background to create a visual rhythm. The color is music, the form is motion. In these exhilarating bright sweeps across an indefinable plane, Kupka has painted the sound of celestial bodies spinning in space...