Word: noire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are a couple of well-known names among the credits. One of the scriptwriters is Millard Kaufman, who wrote Bad Day at Black Rock. His partner is Samuel Fuller, a sort of American-primitive film maker (The Steel Helmet, The Naked Kiss) beloved of film noir aficionados. Director Terence Young has a few James Bond movies like From Russia with Love and Thunderball to his credit. Maybe these names were all rented for the occasion, as camouflage. The evidence on-screen strongly suggests that The Klansman was made pseudonymously by the Snopes family, trying to cash...
...million gal. of California table wine consumed annually by Americans is made from plebeian grapes grown in California's hot San Joaquin Valley, blended and sold mostly by the jug. The highly cherished European wines, on the other hand-such aristocrats as Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc-are made only from selected clones whose territory and yield are as strictly regulated as a royal household and sell in general for $8 a bottle or more. In fact, vagaries of the European climate make the great vintages as costly as a Patou perfume...
...offers variations on two basic scenarios for the future: one hopeful, one not. He judges the "gloomiest" to be also the "most likely." He foresees no World War III, rather, a sort of new isolationism. Americans will develop a hatred of economically competitive Europeans, who will become "the bete noir of our domestic difficulties." The Third World and our own civil liberties will be equally slighted as we accept "creeping fascism" in exchange for preserving our "economic status and stability...
Fulton B. Eaglin is young, black, and a well-educated lawyer. So is Henry Owens, incumbent city councilor and bete-noir of the Cambridge Civic Association...
...DADA. "ZAJ is a musical-theater group from Madrid, Spain," they tell me, "who will 'perform' at 8:30 p.m. at Quincy House Dining Hall" tonight. For contrast, or something, you might try GUERNICA, whatever it may be, by Le Theatre Du Ble Noir at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. in Boston, tomorrow and Saturday...