Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raymond A. Sokolov, Jr.'s waspish review in Friday's CRIMSON accused the Brattle Theatre of failing to advertise the showing of Dan Drasin's Sunday. The Brattle did in fact advertise Sunday in ads in the CRIMSON (Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday), the Globe, the Herald and Traveler, the Record-American, the Christian Science Monitor (Thursday-Friday-Saturday), and on WCRB. In addition, the Brattle sent out special news releases on Sunday which were printed by the Globe (in entirety) and the Herald (in part...
Nearly 500 friends, followers, and just plain curious crammed into the Left Bank studio-gallery-theater of America's pioneer Beatnik Raymond Duncan for his 88th birthday blowout. The bespectacled old expatriate, whose pad is almost a photographic shrine to his late sister, Dancer Isadora Duncan, gave them a weirdly nostalgic show. In a quavering saloon tenor he sang My Old Kentucky Home; then, unshorn silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food...
...Very good, Raymond," the professor coos. "Now take this gun and shoot Bobby Lembeck." Stolidly, Raymond takes the gun and shoots Bobby Lembeck...
Korea, they remember nothing of what has happened. Sent back to the U.S., the gruesome Raymond proves under posthypnotic suggestion to be a police-proof mechanism of murder. At the climax, he holds in his telescopic sights a U.S. presidential candidate whose death would clear the way to the White House for a Communist puppet...
...told by Richard Condon in his psychopolitical thriller, the story of Raymond was notable for its metaphoric extravagance ("There she sits . . . preening the teeth of her power with the floss of my joy") and its intellectual exhibitionism ("They tittered like thlibii"). As translated into cinema by Director John Frankenheimer (Bird Man of Alcatraz), the story is notable chiefly for a systematic error it makes. It tries so hard to be different that it fails to be itself...