Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants to help him find a real escape into a real outer world. Toward the end of the film, she returns to town, reunites with him at a dance, makes love to him in a park, and succeeds in getting him to a train station to begin his freedom ride. They will go off and live together in London. From Richard Burton to the Duke of Windsor, any man could be expected to drop everything and follow her. But not this crow. The train pulls out with her aboard, him on the platform-an ending far more moving...
Jerome Weidman, who wrote Fiorello!, has written a courtroom play called The Ivory Tower about a poet like Ezra Pound who is tried for treason for making wartime broadcasts telling American troops to lay down their arms (November). Franchot Tone stars in Bicycle Ride to Nevada, an adaptation of Barnaby Conrad's novel Dangerfield, which deals with a Nobel prizewinner novelist who has slid down his 50s into alcoholism (Sept. 26). Conrad was once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques...
...five years the Atomic Energy Commission has anxiously been pushing a project code-named Vela-Hotel, designed to detect nuclear explosions in space. Last week the Hotelmen delivered their first package of special instruments. Before the end of 1963, similar instrument packages are scheduled to take the long rocket-ride into space on Air Force-launched satellites...
Women clutched children to their skirts and men edged for cover, for all knew that Scandalous John was the meatiest waddie ever to ride out of the West-the 1960s West of tail-finned Cadillacs and fat farm subsidies, that is. Unhappily, his neighbors back home in New Mexico considered McCanless as loco as a headless road runner. He has embarked on history's last Long Trail Drive, across macadam highways and through skyscraper-canyoned cities at the head of his herd-which consists of one aged cow with a plastic window in her side...
...down Eureka Street announcing the opera performances like town criers. Opening day saw square dances in front of the opera house, and a surrey with the fringe on top conveyed dignitaries to the ceremonies. The nostalgically inclined can bucket out to deserted mines in Jeeps, watch a pony-express ride, or stare at The Face on the Barroom Floor, a new face commissioned to please the tourists who, in turn, prefer to believe that it is the 19th century original. Despite the diverting hoopla, some 27,000 opera lovers are buying seats this season to hear those authentic old Western...