Word: skala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once the hallucinations disappear, Roseland glides on to the banal triangle of a wealthy woman (Joan Copeland), a narcissistic gigolo (Christopher Walken) and an awkward naif (Geraldine Chaplin). The final number features a retired cook (Lilia Skala) who dreams of winning a dance prize before she dies. The only prize the cook deserves is one for overheating her role...
With the exception of the delicate Chaplin, the other performers are as unacceptable as Skala, belting out their monologues, Broadway-style, in a series of relentless closeups. Only in the evocative dance routines, staged by Choreographer Patricia Birch, does the cast reveal any grace. In fairness, it must be hard to contend with roles like these: most of the male characters are pallid Tennessee Williams retreads, and the women are mere camp stereotypes. The movie's two quasi narrators - a tough dance teacher with a 14-carat heart (Helen Gallagher) and a slick M.C. (Don DeNatale) - are shamelessly derived...
...terrorized Greek population into the sea; as on the island of Crete earlier and many years later in Cyprus, the people's hatred and suspicion flared and fighting between Turks and Greeks followed. George Seferis had been born at the beginning of the century in the Ionian village of Skala, where he lived until 1914. The ravage delayed his return for 36 years, and sometimes he called himself a seafarer, perpetually seeking roots. The similitude aptly echoed reality, for Seferis traveled and he wrote--offering manuscripts like a wayward sailor tosses corked "bottles" in the sea on the chance they...
...Skala, unlike the larger and important town of Smyrna, was entirely deserted, and Seferis's childhood flickered on its broken facade. He tried to capture it whole in the form of a huge plane tree--but it had died. He looked for it in his initials scratched on a wall, but he couldn't find them anymore. Irretrievable roots...He left for the last time, a seafarer...
Until recently the Continent's most ancient inhabited site was thought to be Czechoslovakia's Stranska Skala Grotto, where archaeologists have found tools that are some 700,000 years old. Now Prehistorian Henry de Lumley is convinced that manlike creatures lived and worked in the Riviera cave at least 1 million years...