Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...derision of U.S. movie moguls and their rampant commercialism, Pauline Kael is not an art-house snob. She prefers genuine American kitsch, if it has style and verve, to such avant-garde films as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Red Desert and Last Year at Marienbad ("the snow job in the ice palace"). Among her favorite directors are John Frankenheimer and Orson Welles, who provide "clean, fast pacing without the fancy stuff. It goes better with our national rhythm." A onetime experimental moviemaker in San Francisco, where she grew up and attended the University of California at Berkeley, she finds today...
...ripples across the roughest terrain like a huge, double-jointed caterpillar. It can cling to 60° slopes, climb over boulders and fallen timber, push its way through water, mud or snow. On less rigorous straightaways, it can whip along at speeds of up to 65 m.p.h. Built by Lockheed engineers as a high-performance, wheel-driven answer to the tank, the curious transport is fittingly called the Twister...
...point of publishing The Heart of a Dog, a novel recently spirited out of Russia in manuscript form. Bulgakov's complex and comical allegory, The Master and Margarita, was judged fit to be published in his homeland, after some ideological laundering. That was followed by Black Snow, a cudgeling of Stanislavsky. But these satires of Soviet life were devious enough so that the literary bureaucracy could pretend that they were not satire...
British Poet Edward Young's line, written in 1742, serves perfectly to describe the endlessly astonishing politics of 1968. From the snow frolics of New Hampshire to Senator Mark Hatfield's endorsement of Richard Nixon last week, the body politic has been atwitch with major shocks and minor jolts. It is a year when absolutely anything seems possible, and a lot of people are wondering-half-humorously, half-resignedly-what else might be in store politically. For example...
CATV's next move could well be into first-run movies, opera or theater from Manhattan and sports events that are blacked out in some communities. All of this would add up to another anathema of the broadcast industry-pay television. But broadcasters know a snow-free screen when they see it. CBS, NBC and such large station groups as Cox, Westinghouse, Time-Life and Storer have all moved into the CATV business. As a consequence, about 30% of the nation's operating cable systems are owned by conventional broadcasters...