Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Similarly, the President has appeared unwilling or unable to convey any sense of urgency about the urban crisis. At one time Johnson would seize the opportunity of a flood to chopper in and show the beleaguered citizens that their President was with them. Instead of being seen on the ghetto battlegrounds this summer, he has repeatedly posed for pictures chin-chucking and nose-nuzzling his infant grandson...
...tung's chaotic kingdom these days. But nowhere does the chaos seem quite so complete as in Canton. From day to day in the city of 2.5 million, it is difficult to tell just who is taking sides against whom-and why. Near anarchy has seen one faction of Red Guards pitted against another, and when they have not been otherwise occupied, Mao's bullyboys have turned on workers. Workers have taken arms against other workers, and vandals have mocked any semblance of authority...
Perspective was the least of their worries, since a ubiquitous point of view often enhanced the absurdity of all too human situations. A king, stabbed by his son, can be seen dying in silence so as not to disturb his sleeping wife. And seduction scenes often show spying observers as well as oblivious lovers. Understandably, in time miniature painting became less illustration than a literature in itself, uncommonly rich in innuendo. Its message to modern men seems simply that the message need not be writ large to be a source of a thousand and one delights...
...starters, there is the reappearance of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, a double feature not seen on Broadway in four seasons. Miller returns with The Price, a drama of two brothers battling over ancestral property. Williams is polishing a comedy about the impact of a flood on a family in the Mississippi Delta; his working title is Kingdom of Earth. Meanwhile, the prolific Edward Albee will appear for the fourth straight season with an Americanization of Giles Cooper's Lon don suburban comedy, Everything in the Garden...
...into "Good Morning, Good Morning," interpreted by most Beatleologists as an affirmation of everything happy in life. But this is an ambiguous song, in which can also be seen a denunciation of the urban rat race. It uses country metaphors to comment on city life, starting out with a hearty cockcrow, but ending up with a pack of hounds yelping after their prey. Maybe life has the singer at bay, and he doesn't know...