Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historical importance. Busoni is an important moment of transition in mu sic. He falls between two styles, the romantic and the modern. In his struggle to reconcile the two, he helped to break up the romantic tradition and in his late compositions -the six Poly phonic Studies and the superb but rarely performed opera Doktor Faust -he struck out in the same general direction as Schoenberg and Stravinsky...
...Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's trademark moron. The actors do versatile impersonations of the specialized zany-the hi-fi nut, the folksong nut, the technician nut whose means totally dwarf his ends. One of the funniest skits in the show features a TV sportscaster team that, with superb professional aplomb, misses the kickoff, the touchdown play, and even the score of a championship game, while cutting to "our man on the field," interviewing the coach, and breathlessly spieling, World Almanac-slye: "This is only the third time in a Hawk-Rocket game that a safety man of Polish...
Breathless also featured an alienated hero treated without sentimentality. But unlike Truffaut, Godard created an entire revolution in technique. Godard and his superb cameraman, Raoul Coutard, used a hand-held camera for the entire film, giving the director an unheard-of flexibility. Instead of planning the shooting meticulously as convention dictated, Godard created the film through the viewfinder and often used candid shots. Most of all, through both the camera-work and the editing, Godard insisted upon a constant impression of energy which was to infuse the enthusiasms of an entire generation of film-makers...
...film; even the use of black and white film, normally taken for granted, is done with a purpose. Godard continues to make two or three films a year, and his latest efforts, Alphaville and Pierrot le Fou, while not quite up to his standards of 1964, are still superb cinema...
Because Harvard was outplayed under the boards constantly, its fine shooting went for naught. The Crimson hit 34 of 59 shots from the floor -- a superb 59.3 per cent -- compared with Cornell's 46 for 96 mark. Keith Sedlacek was the Crimson's high scorer with 22 points. Bob Beller scored 15 points, hitting five-for-five from the floor...