Word: robots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel detective. (He is an excellent shot with small arms; large guns tend to fire him rather than the bullet.) Gradually, acting jobs began materializing. He played jesters, fools, a cop and a vaudeville performer off-Broadway, made his first Broadway appearance as the insides of a robot in How to Make...
...artists that they are beyond imitation or that their work can be instantly identified. Yet this was true of Boris Artzybasheff, our old friend and colleague who died last week at the age of 66 (see MILESTONES). Looking at a computer eating file cards, a long-legged robot stalking through a lunar landscape, or a hydraulic press squatting like an ancient, malevolent god, one immediately recognized the unique vision of the 20th century that belonged to Artzybasheff...
...youth of England," says the London Mirror Group's Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp, "but he is irresistible." France's Barbarella, an unmistakable likeness of Brigitte Bardot, is an oversexed, underdressed space girl who beds down with some fantastic creatures, including a gigantic blind angel and a gentlemanly robot. Sprawled nude in bed with the robot, Barbarella praises his masterful technique. "Ah, madame," replies the self-deprecating robot, "my impulses are rather mechanical...
...neurosis. She is inspiringly alienated, for that sturdy cliché dissolves into a rich flow of images that astonish the eye. At one moment, a street scene goes entirely grey-including a vendor, his cart, fruit and all. When Vitti awakes in panic at night to find a toy robot clacking around her glacially modern home as though it had a will of its own, the very walls become terrifying abstractions. And her fear of separateness is made subtly palpable on the quay where a mist isolates her from husband, lover and friends...
From the dance of the rusty robot to Ray Bolger's tumbling scarecrow and Bert Lahr's campy lion, the children will greet most of it with a knowing and unexcited air. When Judy Garland sang Over the Rainbow last year, a three-year-old female sophisticate said: "She always wears her hair in braids, you know." But Judy's Dorothy, as a matter of surprising fact, is not the uppermost character in the children's minds any more. To them, she is just another frosted cornflake...