Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depth will release it. Freed from this ballast, the needle will be lighter than molten rock, and it will float instead of sinking. At last it will surface like a blowing whale, bringing with it samples of deep-down lava that have forced their way into depressions in its shell...
...Meanwhile, the earthy queen is in a state of sexual shell shock, as who wouldn't be after making love to a part-time vampire? Faustus has the vampire put to death by impalement and recovers his ring. Then master alchemists appear before him (old Ben Jonson characters like Linus Pauling) to urge that he destroy the ring and save the world. He does-by plunging with it into the fires of Hell, where he ends up playing cards with the Devil...
...take a decade, reasoned the Halasz brothers, and all that time something ugly and un inspired would be sitting there. So they drew up plans for something attractive and imaginative: a red brick snailshell. Customers enter where a snail would, find tellers ranged behind a curved counter inside the shell. Daylight comes through a plastic dome in the roof. The little building has caused much comment ("Entering it along that sloping pathway," says a woman depositor, "is like being sucked into a hair drier"), and many Bostonians will be sorry to see it torn down...
Large and jolly Victor Lord Roth schild, 53, the titular head of the Brit ish family, is a Cambridge don who has made a mark as philanthropist, scien tist and Labor peer, is also chairman of Shell Research. An expert on fertili zation, he once astonished BBC-TV viewers by bringing before the cameras an enormous model of a human sperm. (His daughter Emma, 15, this year be came the youngest woman ever admitted to Cambridge.) Like many Roth schild men and women who have made a tradition of volunteering for hazardous duty in wars from 1870 onward...
Written and directed by Adolfas Mekas, a hard-shell cinema nut who lives on Manhattan's Lower East Side and has never made a feature film before, Hallelujah is the weirdest, wooziest, wackiest screen comedy of 1963 -and what's more, it cost only $75,000 from concept to can. Often corny and sometimes precious, it is nevertheless a slapstick poem, an intellectual hellzapoppin, a gloriously fresh experiment and experience in the cinema of the absurd...