Word: raft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everything has stopped," declared a frustrated Washington attorney. "We've got stuff over in Antitrust and at Treasury. We can't get any decisions. And at the Price Commission it is hopeless. We've got a raft of exceptions we're trying to get settled from Phase...
...sight out of a Twain lover's imagined memory: a tiny, homemade Mississippi River raft, buoyant on blue oil-drums, flapping blue canvas greetings from its scanty half deck. On board is a troupe of traveling players who ply their ancient art along the river's muddy banks. But their message has a decidedly new twist. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Otrabanda Theatre Company-four actors, one actress, a crew-woman and, until recently, a dog named Sweenie-this summer is bringing frenetic, sometimes avant-garde drama to 30 Mississippi River...
Working in the backyard of a retired Antioch drama professor, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, the Otrabandists assembled a raft by strapping flooring and two-by-fours to twelve 50-gallon drums donated by a local company. They added a canoe to trail behind for occasional jaunts to shore, then trucked the whole caboodle to St. Louis and launched The River Raft Revue-"at the world's most popular price: free!!" (The National Endowment grant of $15,000 is enough to cover expenses and possibly provide $25 per week in salary for each actor...
...green and white Volkswagen van and trailer, carrying props and a gaudily striped circus tent, drives along the highways ahead of the 4-m.p.h. raft. The idea is to pique the curiosity of the local townfolk with the circus tent and catch their interest with oldtime medicine-show acts in the first half of the program-a jerky juggling act, for example, or the wonders of "Miraculo" the Magician, an exotic gentleman "just returned from the remote and distant shores of Long Island...
...stupid but not disastrous. Even in the maimed state in which it has been released, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is the richest, most exciting American film so far this year. There are moments and whole sequences here that stand among the best Peckinpah has ever achieved: a raft moving down a muddy river, a ragged family huddled on board; the final meeting of Gar rett and Billy back at Old Fort Sumner at night, with men moving like apparitions and dust blowing like a rasping fog. The whole film has a parched, eerie splendor that no one could...