Word: quilted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crazy Quilt. Henry (Tom Rosqui) is a realist. "He knows," says the narrator (Burgess Meredith), "that God is dead, that innocence is a fraud and guilt a disease, happiness a myth and despair a pose. And that vice is no more interesting than virtue." Henry works as a termite exterminator and looks like a large unshaven blur. Lorabelle (Ina Mela) is an idealist. "She believes in everything. In Providence and butterflies, romance and statuary." She plays all day long, sniffing flowers and feeding ducks, and looks like the dew on the wings of a wish...
Henry and Lorabelle have begun a dialogue that will last a lifetime. Though the spectator may not know it, he has begun to watch a deliberately minor masterpiece. Written, directed, photographed and produced for less than $100,000 by a 30-year-old TV producer named John Korty, Crazy Quilt is an almost perfect little film that says something both funny and profound about one of life's larger ironies: the painful and yet wonderful difference between what people seek in the world and what they find...
...cinema has seldom produced a picture as sophisticated in style as Crazy Quilt. Director Korty speaks an ultramodern language of film with a fluency that refuses flamboyance; every part of his art is resolved in the whole of his work. Korty's camera keeps the eye informed and exercised, but never offers it extraneous excitement. Peter Schickele's score flows so congruously out of the images that the spectator sometimes feels he must be seeing with his ears. And the actors-Rosqui is a member of Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, and Mela an off-Broadway...
...remarkable dearth of effective legal controls over the purchase and possession of guns. Federal law curbs a few things, such as traffic in machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and silencers, but the regulation of firearms has been left largely to cities and states, which have built a crazy quilt of laws, few of them stringent. Until New Jersey enacted a new gun statute last week, no state (and only Philadelphia among U.S. cities) required police permits for buying, keeping, or even roaming Main Street with a shotgun or rifle. Only seven states and a handful of municipalities require permits...
...Ever since the U.S. began experimenting with daylight-saving time in 1918, the nation during the spring, summer and fall has turned itself into a chaotic crazy quilt of conflicting time patterns. Eighteen states observe D.S.T. on a uniform statewide basis. In another 18 states, individual communities decide for themselves whether or not they will follow D.S.T. and set for themselves the dates on which it goes into and out of effect. Fourteen other states, including almost the entire South, remain on standard time all year long...