Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zelig is the culmination of a long quest by Allen. He is virtually the only celebrity who has continually investigated the values and liabilities of his own status. Three years ago, in Stardust Memories, he attempted to order these thoughts on film and was roundly criticized for so doing. In that story of a comedian oppressed by his own fame, he was unable to achieve the distance and objectivity he needed. Zelig's form provides both. Acutely satirizing mediaspeak, the film hilariously exposes the vulgarizations and misleading distortions of that language. At the same time, it touchingly demonstrates that...
...bring about the record turnout of foreign entries: three Australian, one French, one Canadian, one Italian and one English. "The more the scarier," frets Commodore Henry H. Anderson Jr. of the N.Y.Y.C.'S Cup Committee. Not that a realistic chance of victory has ever been central to the quest...
...Rizzo!" cried a woman in the crowd. "We don't want you as mayor." It was one of the few even slightly rude moments in a remarkably even-tempered, almost genteel campaign. It was also prophetic. Last week, in his quest to be Philadelphia's first black mayor, W. Wilson Goode reaped 97% of the city's black vote and took the primary by a margin of 7%. With a 65.6% turnout, the primary, like Chicago's bitter mayoral bout last month, evidenced emerging black power at municipal polls...
...show is the creation of veteran Writer-Producer Jon Stone, 52, a Sesame Street pioneer and the winner of eight Emmy Awards for that show as well as such specials as Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Stone's notion was to create a quest theme. The story opens as Big Bird (played, as he is on Sesame Street, by Caroll Spinney), roller-skates through Manhattan's Chinatown and admires a scroll depicting the legendary phoenix of China. He is smitten and resolves to go to China as a sort of avian Henry Kissinger, to tell the phoenix that...
...groups seem harder to unionize than freelance writers: the very label conveys an aura of individualism, and many freelancers approach getting published less as a job than as a spiritual quest. But last week a fledgling National Writers Union framed a constitution and elected officers from among 1,500 dues-paying members, including Novelist Kurt Vonnegut and Journalist Studs Terkel. Said President Andrea Eagan, a feminist writer: "Without top names we would be like a baseball union without Reggie Jackson...