Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco, some 9,000 people last month jammed the Longshoremen's Auditorium for a three-day happening, or "trip." Slides of pop and op art were flashed on and off the walls and ceiling. Onstage a woman in a negligee was bombarded with raw eggs, a stark-naked Negro beat the drums, an acrobat bounced on the trampoline. Without letup, pounding music exploded in the eardrums and blurred reason. Most spectators joined in the fun. One wore a toga made from an American flag, another sported a sign reading: "You're in the Pepsi generation...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. This strong, stark adaptation of John le Carre's novel has Richard Burton giving his best screen performance as a burnt-out British agent sent to set a diabolical trap for a tireless foe (Oskar Werner) in East Germany...
Jacques Demy was trained as a violinist but now spends his time composing movies as themes-and-variations. The repetition of visual patterns in his brilliant Bay of the Angels struck many viewers as monotonous. Shot in black and white, Bay had a stark, realistic aspect that obscured the director's intentions, leading viewers to anticipate a narrative realism that Demy had little interest in presenting...
...held--the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, all of it. Even disciplined portly General von Choltitz (Gert Forbe) balks at the task. Finally (because he comes to the conclusion that Hitler is mad) he betrays the city to the Allies and it's all over but the shouting. Producer Ray Stark could have made a documentary or he could have made a movie about von Choltitz's moral dilemma (uninteresting though it may be). Instead he has attempted to place every page of the book in Gallic animation--a feat awesome in itself since every page is as boring...
...tough act to follow, but Mimi grinned gratefully: "It's easier to follow a good act than a bad one-it's not like this show was a bomb." Neither was Mimi. Everyone of course would think of Barbra, but after a few performances, Producer Ray Stark thought his new Funny Girl girl so humorous that he offered her and her husband Phil Ford, who now has the role of Eddie Ryan in the play, a $1,000,000 film, stage and TV contract...