Word: sleighs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hofheinz has a new spectacular: Astroworld. It opened last week, a 57-acre amusement park near Houston's Astrodome and still another of Hofheinz' ventures, a convention center called Astrohall. Yes, it rained on opening day. Such attractions as a simulated sleigh ride down the 65-ft.-high Der Hofheinzberg and most of the boats to carry visitors through a Lost World Adventure were not functioning. The next night, the Astrowheel-the world's first futuristic Ferris wheel-groaned to a halt, marooning 40 riders high above the action...
Friday, December 8 G.E. FANTASY HOUR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Burl Ives as the voice of Sam the Snowman tells of that brightly beaked buck who saved the sleigh when snow threatened to cancel Christmas in the fourth annual repeat of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer...
Died. Edgard Varese, 81, Paris-born avant-garde composer, whose ear-shattering attempts (with sirens, sleigh bells, clanking chains) to extend the boundaries of music beyond conventional instruments went unnoticed until the mid-1950s, when the noisy young composers of electronic music "rediscovered" him and hailed him as their mas ter; of complications following surgery; in Manhattan...
...down the reception line as another girl entirely, so everybody had the most awful time sorting out Elizabeth Funston, 18, Virginia Guest, 18, Jocelyn Kress, 18, and Fernanda Kellogg, 18. But then the ritual began as always with the Coming Out Waltz, followed by the Garland Dance, the Polka Sleigh Ride and the Christmas Star, in which the gals kneel in the dark, hold candles and sing carols. Meyer Davis' band struck up Every thing's Coming Up Roses, swung into rock 'n' roll for the watusi, frug and monkey lovers. And before anybody realized...
...some of them recognizable (one of Ugetsu, for instance), most of them not. Good parody can be broad, but it musn't be rubbed in; why does Mr. Mekas choose to have Japanese characters appear on the screen in the Ugetsu scene and Cyrllic subtitles flash on during a sleigh ride when the music in both cases makes the jokes perfectly well? Mr. Mekas' other comedy technique is the avoidance of all logical transition between events in the film. I should say that a number of persons in the audience seemed to be laughing themselves silly...