Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eliot extravaganza will feature Judy and Jim Sladky, five time United States national dance champions and 1972-75 stars of the Ice Capades, and David Santee, currently the U.S. men's silver medalist. Also appearing are Lorna Whitton and John Dowling, the Canadian national bronze medalist...
...imaginative transformation of scarps of gold and silver foil and discarded objects is the work of a schizophrenic, perhaps, someone who saw and worked in another universe certainly. Hampton was serious, but we don't have to be. A crown with a tinfoil-covered lightbulb sprouting our of it like a parody of an old cartoon, ("I've got it!") is one of the most ridiculous objets d'art of this or the other world...
...Prince Charles, offering some lofty motives for leaving the Royal Navy on Dec. 15 (after five years of service). Now the commanding officer of a 360-ton mine hunter named the H.M.S. Bronington, Charles will quit ruling the waves in six weeks to take charge of preparations for the Silver Jubilee, next year's celebration of Queen Elizabeth's 25th year on the throne. His leave-taking will mark the end of a not-so-bon voyage. "I have never actually been sick until I came to this ship," confesses the Prince. "She has given me some particularly...
Weir doesn't even call his pictures photographs, but photographics. More mystery, this time in the technical process, not in the conception. Silver bromides and cyanotypes sound like poison, but are merely, the initiated say, transforming photographic potions. What they will do to film's record of reality remains to be seen...
...blessing. Most prominently, the program offers two splendid performances. In Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Shelley Duvall brings a graceful vulnerability and unguarded beauty to the role of an ugly-duckling adolescent who is first encouraged in social flirtations, then undone by an attractive, more popular cousin. Director Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street) misses the stronger undercurrents of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce Carol Gates story he adapted, In the Region of Ice. Actress Fionnuala Flanagan, though, finds just the right portions...