Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last August, during an evening service at the white frame Holiness Church of God in Jesus' Name at Big Stone Gap, Va., Oscar Pelfrey. 65, stood before the congregation holding a pair of writhing timber rattlesnakes. "I believe, Jesus, O Jesus, I believe-thank you, Jesus!" cried Pelfrey, a lay minister of the church. Suddenly, one of the rattlers struck him on the left temple. Taken home, he refused medical attention and died six hours later...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.). Cat Ballon (1965). Lee Marvin in his Oscar-winning dual role as a drunken gunfighter and a hilariously sinister killer. Also stars Jane Fonda...
Just how much more unfit than some of the items accepted by the festival is difficult to imagine. Closely Watched Trains, by Jiri Menzel of Czechoslovakia, won an Oscar as the Best Foreign Film of 1967. This year Menzel returns with Capricious Summer, a disappointingly slight fable about a traveling carnival in a small country town. There are three films from what the festival labels "the German Renaissance"; two of them suggest that it might have been better advertised as "the Return of the Visigoths." The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is a paralyzed semidocumentary in which...
...played an acting student, crippled with a plethora of fright sweat and a dearth of talent. The performance earned him a Tony Award. As the suicidal intellectual in Luv, Arkin was so explosively funny that his director, Mike Nichols, called him "the best actor in America." He won an Oscar nomination for his first full-length film role: the resignedly subversive Soviet officer in The Russians Are Coming. His first straight picture, Wait Until Dark, was a Guinness-like tour de force in which Arkin offered portraits of a father, his son and a psychopathic killer...
Among other Harvard teachers belonging to the group are Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; Seymour Martin Lipset, Professor of Sociology; James Q. Wilson, Professor of Government; and James Vorenberg, Professor...