Word: screen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey blew kisses toward the TV screen as the cameras zeroed in on his wife Muriel at the hall; then he dashed up and kissed
FROM his bedroom window on the 23rd floor of the Conrad Hilton, Eugene McCarthy viewed the carnage on Michigan Avenue, turning now and again to the TV screen to watch the dissolution of his own hopes at the convention hall. Only once, when California's Jesse Unruh, a holdout supporter of Teddy Kennedy, appeared on the screen, did he show anger. And even that was relatively subdued. "That doublecrossing son of a bitch," he growled...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* Joshua Logan's screen adaptation of William Inge's Bus Stop (1956), with Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. In this transposition of John Osborne's bitterly impassioned play, Nicol Williamson sears the screen as a London solicitor who awakes one morning to the frightening realization that he has grown middle-aged and that his life is meaningless...
...sometime cripple portrayed bitterly as a discarded lover). The action is largely set against the party, usually in silent swing upstage, and much of it is filmed by a little boy with a movie camera who rejects Everyman's plea for companionship by saying, "My life's a silver screen: lots of hand-held stuff, but no adventure flicks." When Everyman misses, it does so by picking overeasy targets to snipe at: American dream complacency, religious hypocrisy, etc. But as in Mayer's Midsummer Night's Dream the reinterpretation of type is often shocking, always cunning. The archetypal morality play...