Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash: "Mike is dead now, and I am alive"). Many psychologists who have no quarrel with the life-must-continue attitude are dubious about the decline in expression of grief. Psychology Professor Harry W. Martin of Texas Southwestern Medical School deplores the "slick, smooth operation of easing the corpse out, but saying no to weeping and wailing and expressing grief and loneliness. What effect does this have on us psychologically? It may mean that we have to mourn covertly, by subterfuge-perhaps in various degrees of depression, perhaps in mad flights of activity...
Worst of all, the crispness called for by Whiting gets covered with grease in the slick tone of this production. Even the playwright's brilliant stage directions, where the sinister plotters enter an act on the left side of the stage while Grandier and his friends remain on the right, are overdone by the use of blue and red filters on the left-side lighting. Whiting has embodied a psychological truth, but Cacoyannis turns it into a device...
...many an old Djakarta hand is convinced that the Reds were not the masterminds. For one thing, Untung's clumsy and ill-planned coup lacked the slick organization one would expect from efficient Communist Party Chief D. N. Aidit. With 3,500,000 members, plus his large and increasing influence on Sukarno's policies, Aidit was doing well enough as things were...
...among the pro-Peking hawks: Foreign Minister Bhutto and Information Chief Altag Gauhar, both hot nationalists who were happy to get the vast outpouring of U.S. aid in the 1950s but who now make no secret of their anti-American attitudes. Bhutto, an intimate friend of Indonesia's slick, pro-Peking Foreign Minister Subandrio, loses no opportunity to sneer at the U.S. effort in Viet Nam. Gauhar takes a similar tack, and has the means to propagate it: direct orders go out daily from his office to the Pakistan press, spelling out how stories-and headlines-should be played...
Died. Zachary Scott, 51, character actor, a mustachioed Texan who ambled around Hollywood wearing a pirate-style gold earring, was most often cast as the oil-slick villain of Hollywood cliffhangers (Ruthless, Whiplash), but proved equally proficient in the demanding Broadway role of the relentless defense attorney in Faulkner's 1959 Requiem for a Nun; of cancer; in Austin, Texas...