Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUBJECT WAS ROSES. Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen kindle the spark of real life in this lace-curtain Irish drama about the woes of a middleclass family in The Bronx...
...ironic that your article "Universities: Joining the Real World," appears next to "Literature: Mr. Wilson's War" [Nov. 1]. If those who consider themselves literary scholars and critics would focus on the whole literary work and give perspective to students, then the world's literary masterpieces could again perform their unique function, speaking to all men at all times about man's condition. There is nothing "aloof" about Sophocles' Oedipus, and Dante, despite his terza rima, was in there dealing with the nitty-gritty of his day. It's time our scholars met the challenge...
Riot has been developed by the OM Theatre Workshop of Boston, under the direction of Julie Portman. The entire company contributes perfectly to the total effect. Riot is born of despair and imparts only frustration. How you individually manage to work out that frustration is the real challenge of the evening...
...give an idea of what his film is about. He says that when it came out in Czechoslovakia, forty thousand firemen resigned, and in order to appease them he had to say that the firemen in the film were actually symbolic representations of society. But then, in a real comment about himself, he undercuts everything he has said by stating that the film is just about firemen. Forman presents a simple story that might easily be loaded with meaning--but he denies that...
...fact, on a deeper level Forman's film and his previous release, Loves of a Blonde, are so relaxed and unimposing that they offer a real contrast to contemporary cinematography. With no hero, no violent or explosive action, and no plastic characters with expressions of angst molded into their features, this portrait of Czech life is singular in its impact. Instead of extraordinary experience or bigger than life tragedy, there are pathetic vignettes about totally unexplained but quite believeable people. In place of the complete involvement of constructed suspense, there is the uneventful yet amusing commonplace. It is reality...