Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True to type, Single Girl longs to be chased as well as chaste. After a few rounds of parlor tag, it ends with a frenetic pursuit scene that slams the entire cast into fast cars and sends them caroming off to the airport, changing partners en route, bumping into things. All are understandably eager to get out of town, and their impulse to flee provides the film's first and only surge of audience identification...
Neatness of execution, however, was not always a virtue even to Rodin, although aptness of thought was. The vogue for primitive art has led some sculptors to making fetishes. Edward Kienholz, 37, assembles objects from Grandmother's Victorian parlor and makes them into a wild and woolly revulsion called The Four Bears, which is composed, or decomposed, of a life jacket, a night table, and the extremities of a stuffed bear (whose sawed-off head nuzzles into a broken goldfish bowl). The human figure, when it appears, seems almost a wry joke. William King, 39, for instance, makes...
...Manhattan's City College one night last winter, handsome Mike Schaffer, 19, was feeling good: in a basketball game against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he had scored 18 points and led his team to victory. With his girl, his sister and eight friends, Mike headed for an ice cream parlor to celebrate. Up drove Edward Weissman, 19, a factory worker, who shouted flirtatiously at one of the girls. Hot words followed. According to police, Weissman gunned his motor, drove straight at the group, hit Mike Schaffer and dragged him half a block to his death. Weissman never stopped. So stunned...
...short order, Martin develops a tingling interest in Palmer's half sister Honor Klein, an eerie anthropologist given to such parlor tricks as decapitating a kabuki doll with one swish of a samurai sword. Even more unnervingly, she turns out to be sleeping with her half brother. By this time, Georgie has taken up with Martin's brother, a sculptor. The final curtain finds Palmer with Georgie, Antonia with the sculptor, and Martin with Honor Klein...
...amazement that we view the coup; it has been coming slowly for a long while, we now see, but its indubitable arrival is nevertheless startling. No more the after-dinner retreat of the men into the salon to smoke; no more the demure gathering of ladies in the upstairs parlor. Egalite has forever blurred the old elegance...