Word: shepherd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Geophysical Year. As a member of the executive board of UNESCO three years ago, he made-only half facetiously-some arresting proposals: hauling Antarctic icebergs to water the Mojave desert, dyeing the ocean to control absorption of solar heat and thereby curb hurricanes, training porpoises to shepherd fish...
...Harp (The Daphne Hellman Quartet; Harmony LP). Harpist Hellman produces some stunning sonorities with an instrument bred to less exotic climes. With the sound sometimes brittle and percussive, sometimes cobwebby soft, Harpist Hellman and her helpers (bass, guitar and drums) swing with sinuous brilliance through Summertime, Swingin' Shepherd Blues, Down the Road a Piece, giving each a fine crystalline gloss...
Save for Judas, those named for the Passion play sympathize with these outcasts. Manolios, the shepherd playing Jesus, finally leads the town to revolt against its leaders. Their revolt soon deflates, however, and they join their pope in a battle against the exiles which forces the Turkish Agha to deliver Manolios to death at the hands of his townspeople. Shocked by the crime, townsmen begin to join the exiles against the Turks...
...shepherd makes a convincing Christ, thanks largely to a brilliant device of Kazantzaki: until he most needs speech the shepherd stutters incomprehensibly, at which time his simple courage and sincerity is given tongue. The rest of the credit belongs to the director, who uses the camera throughout the first half of the film in a straight-on manner, getting dramatic effects from posing and from motion directly in and out or across the screen. His scenes resemble a series of carefully posed Renaissance paintings, narrating a Biblical story, for he focuses attention not by close-ups or dramatic angles...
...girl who paid her earnings to one brother lived in a flat owned by another. As the boys became more polished, they got themselves measured for Savile Row suits, and liked to keep a wary eye on the pavement patrols of their girls by cruising Curzon Street and Shepherd Market in Rolls-Royces. By the 1950s, the police estimated that at least 200 of London's most expensive prostitutes were Messina fillies...