Word: spearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCOPE (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m. in New York; nationally, 10:30-11 p.m.). "Jomo Kenyatta: Burning Spear Turns Builder." A visit with Kenya's leader...
Made in 1957, this samurai Macbeth offers new insights into character and motivation as well as preserving the wild atmosphere of the original. When Macbeth returns from murdering the King, Lady Macbeth must pry his clenched fingers off the bloody spear--and it is with such moments that Kurosawa shows the eloquence of simple action. The classic scenes and images neither fall flat nor stick out as irrelevant set-pieces. The haggish forest spirit who replaces the Weird Sisters is as eery as they, with her boomy, slowed-down voice. Macduff's advancing army, seen through Fuji's mists, really...
...lived in rustic Vence, an ancient town of Roman origins perched in the Maritime Alps. Each day, he sorties from the garden of his white-walled studio house, Les Collines (The Hills), past the orange trees whose fruits lie rotting on the ground, along lines of spear-like cypresses and sun-baked terraces exploding with olive trees, down to Avenue Henri Matisse, then cuts off to rocky, flower-lined paths unknown to tourists. After an hour, he re-emerges, sweat pearling on his pale forehead, but refreshed and ready for work...
...denied them, education withheld, and they have managed to preserve their dignity only by clinging to their past. The tall, naked Dinkas still worship animal spirits and fear the evil eye. The fierce Nuer herdsmen still subsist on milk, termites and the blood of cattle. The stately Shilluks still spear lion and crocodile, still stand for hours, cranelike, on one foot...
...simple as a man petting a dog. "In itself," he says, "that's a cozy act." Or, he confronts the viewer with Palace in Babylon, a cardboard mock-up of D. W. Griffith's 1916 film epic, Intolerance. As in a spectacular dollhouse, chariots, dancers, spear bearers, and potentates in braided beards are framed betwixt potbellied columns. Atop them trumpet curly-trunked elephants, seated like corpulent Hollywood-style brokers at a banquet. Playful, punning, and still a sophisticated commentary, it is, like most of Red Grooms's art, a toy for adults...