Word: saurians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lemmon loses his mobility only two minutes after the picture begins. Cast as a CBS cameraman who is clipped while covering a Cleveland Browns football game, he wakes up in the hospital confronting the saurian sneer of "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich (Matthau), an ambulance chaser who, by the look of his crummy clothes, has been chasing them on his hands and knees. Willie's skin is as grey as the towel in a night-court lavatory, but his ideas are crisp and green. As the cameraman's brother-in-law, he loyally announces: "We're going...
Glittering Bird. The reason for Calder's unlimited scale is that he is a space prober. His mobiles stir through space like tree branches in a breeze. His stabiles (unmoving sculpture) are saurian girders that seem to slunk through the landscape, yet loom with a delicacy all their own. Yet their universality is shot through with humility. Visitors to the Guggenheim wandered beneath huge stabiles, paused to observe his The Only Only Bird (see opposite); it is a pop-like dodo made of beer and coffee cans whose title is drawn from a slogan on a can rather than...
...Philosophizing Wolf." Though he is one of the world's most eminent logicians, Bertie Russell has achieved ever wider cold war fame as one of its most illogical eminences. A wispy, white-maned aristocrat who, like a fictional intellectual once described by Novelist Aldous Huxley, resembles "an extinct saurian." Russell is a brooding, old-fashioned agnostic who for most of his life has been torn between his view that the human race is irredeemably wicked and his conviction that he can save it. At one time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing...
...Jules and Jim see a sculpture, the head of a woman smiling. Sometimes her smile is the omniscient smile of Sophia, sometimes it is the saurian grin of a Lorelei. They fall in love with the smile...
...wide and sullen river during a hunt for crocodiles. The searchlight's beam picks up the two glowing, red eyes of a crocodile on the river bank. From a distance of three yards the hunter fires and the crocodile's head explodes. The still twitching saurian is hauled aboard, and one of Nadine Gordimer's hearty women, a guest on the expedition, gives tongue. "Oh, my God!" she cries. "Wasn't that wonderful? Did you ever see anything like it! Those eyes! Staring at you! Crash-Whoom-Finished...