Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visually, Planet of the Apes is just as senseless. The ape community looks to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, on an off-day. A lengthy fight sequence between Heston and the apes achieves next to no continuity because director Franklin Schaffner fools around too much with the camera. But the apes themselves, if a cut below their remarkable prototypes in 2001: A Space Odyssey, could easily be worse--with lousy makeup or lousy actors. Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall and Maurice Evans are the best...
...explosion was as senseless as it was inevitable, once King took his 4,500 marchers onto historic Beale Street. A band of young Negroes called the Invaders had been waiting for the event. "We been making plans to tear this town up for a long time," an Invader chieftain told TIME'S Atlanta Bureau Chief Roger Williams. "We didn't dare do it on our own. We needed a crowd. We knew he'd turn out a crowd, and with a crowd the cops would have a hard time laying hands on us." One hundred strong...
...concludes: "Living is really putting up with someone else and going to bed with him, whether you feel like it or not." And it is still Pavese speaking as narrator in The Devil in the Hills. Here he returns to the Piedmontese hills, where he is confronted with the senseless incursions of vice from the cities and a rich young man drugging and drinking himself to death-all placed in a framework of nature accurately observed...
...Pavese. His characters are en gaged in a relentless search to figure out what it is they want from a prosaic life; that too was Pavese. He was a lonely man, and his narrators are lonely; they are wanderers, loving solitude and yet caught up in the senseless rush of people who have a need for febrile action, drink and meaningless sexual bouts...
...young soldier with the active help of his equally intelligent father. The act is deliberate and they offer no defense at their trial. German courtroom justice, the army, the press and small-town morality are all lethally and satirically observed. The criminals come off well because even their apparently senseless act makes more sense than the system. Burning the Jeep is a Happening, a symbolic work of art. Their point, and Boll's, is plain: sane men are beginning to find their bureaucratic world intolerable...