Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning, Amin sent an incoherent telegram: "I want to assure you that I love you very much and if you had been a woman I would have considered marrying you." Nyerere did not reply. Neighboring Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta watched Amin's wild career in silent horror. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda condemned Amin's actions as "terrible, abominable, shameful." Added the Times of Zambia: "Only in the befuddled mind of a punch-drunk ex-boxer could the fact be disputed that his operations against the Asians are giving Africa a bad name. God help...
Died. William Boyd, 74, whose portrayal of Hopalong Cassidy entertained youthful audiences for a quarter of a century; in South Laguna, Calif. The son of an Ohio farm laborer, Boyd went to Hollywood in 1915 in search of good times, glory and romance. A star of silent films, he earned more than $100,000 a year during the '20s, but his career as a screen lover was over by 1935 when he made the first of 66 Hopalong Cassidy movies. During the '40s, Boyd shrewdly bought the TV rights to his old westerns, then began producing an additional...
...absence of alert students, it has been easy to steamroll students into silent acquiescence when, as always, they are presented with a stage managed fait accompli. As a result, intellectual nullity has often been found impressive and even popular, and all that seems demanded of candidates is that they come suitably trailing clouds of au courant nationalist fervor...
...sounds like something thought up by Stanley Kubrick for the movie 2001. The silent central control room houses giant twin computers that send dozens of sleek, 80-m.p.h. silvery aluminum passenger trains slicking sibilantly into stations at intervals as close as 90 seconds. Each train has only one blue-jumpsuit-clad attendant, and he allows computers to run the controls except in the event of an emergency. Even tickets are sold (in amounts up to $20) by machine. The buyer inserts coins or bills; after an electronic eye scans them, the machine gives forth a credit-card-sized ticket. Thereafter...
THERE is a very short history of films made by committed artists with political intentions. There are the famous propaganda films--Leal Riefenstahl's Olympia and Triumph of the Will, the early Soviet Union silent classics, the American, "Why We Fight" series during World War II. But films which have dealt with social process in a direct attempt to instruct or instigate change are few and mostly foreign. Think of Battle of Algiers The Confession If the films of Godard...