Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edelmann furiously ransacks the past. From the mannerists, he borrows "shot colors" -red blending into orange, blue fading into green. He employs the whiplash and the curvilinear strokes of art nouveau. He features the upholstered monsters of comic strips, the impudent whimsy of Dada, the vibrating poster art of Peter Max. The eclecticism almost becomes a style of its own, and occasionally it is effective, as in Eleanor Rigby when "all the lonely people" appear as gritty newsreel figures who float by each other in a surrealistic frieze...
...Corp. and Manhattan-based C.I.T. Financial Corp. announced plans for a union. The deal would have involved a swap of Xerox stock then worth $1.5 billion and created a hefty new conglomerate with assets of $4.5 billion. The agreement was based only on a handshake, but Xerox President C. Peter McColough cheerfully predicted that the merger would provide his company with "a much broader base than we now enjoy, enabling us to accelerate our plans in several fields...
Great Catherine--Claims to be derived from Bernard Shaw's obscure one-actor, with Jeanne Moreau, Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel. At the CHERI I Dalton St. in Prudential Center...
...Millions--Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith are just fine in this gentle suspense-comedy written by Ustinov and Ira Wallach. At the ASTOR, Tremont St. near Boylston...
...Lion in Winter--Pretension unleashed, most notably that of Anthony Harvey, the director, who seems bent on doing everything as conspicuously as he can. Neither Peter O'Toole nor Katharine Hepburn gives much of a performance in this cumbersomely filmed version of James Goldman's play, which was unconvincing to start with. At the PARIS CINEMA, 841 Boylston...