Word: ransack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return to elemental states. Age comes finally. Time reasserts itself. As the artifice is revealed, one almost expects to hear the snap of Prospero's wand. For this is Nabokov's autumnal fairy tale. Though not his finest book, it is certainly his most brilliant attempt yet to ransack the images and thoughts of his own past and shape them into a glittering now of the imagination...
...draw pleasure from their environment on its own terms. This capacity may be more a matter of temperament than anything else. The Brooks left Educador with an adopted son and daughter, a testimony to their identification with the people they helped. Other Volunteers are thrown back upon themselves; they ransack the Peace Corps booklocker and strugble to define the attitudes their new new existence has forced onto them. Ken Kressel who served in the Ivory Coast called for a Peace Corps philosophy of dullness appropriate to the environment. "No crashing of guns, no bombing of heavy seas against our frail...
...commercial cinema. Even though many Hollywood directors write off the experimenters as no-talent amateurs, some of their notions are already being absorbed into the visual vocabulary of the media. The men who make television commercials, for instance, regularly rent big batches of avant-garde films and ransack them for ideas...
...their sound paintings. Suddenly instrumentalists began to clamor for flute lessons. In Europe, the great teacher was Marcel Moyse; in the U.S. William Kincaid. Between them, these men developed almost all the important modern flutists-who in turn have badgered composers to write for the flute and musicologists to ransack the archives for flute music long forgotten. In the last ten years, flute repertory has been strenuously improved and enlarged-some 5,000 selections are now catalogued. In the same time, the number of amateur flute players in the U.S. has more than tripled. Says Flutist Baker: "The flute...
Some scenes succeed, others dissolve into bathos. The scene in which Michele, the older sister, stabs an ornamented chair with a long pin, effectively foreshadows the knifing scene at the end. When the maids ransack the kitchen, throwing food and smashing plates, they are doing what every girl would love to do and Papatakis achieves his intended portrayal of the normal impulse run wild. Finally, the murder scene, done with brilliant jump-cutting, creates terror before the audience can realize what has happened...