Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complete as a man as he is a fighter. Secure and serious in the pursuit of his "purpose in life," his strength, courage and conviction recall to mind Paul Robeson, the hugely talented black singer who parried the assaults that a demi-world of small men thrust at him because of his beliefs. Like Robeson, Ali possesses a majestic grace that allows him to thrive when it is expected he will crumble. Seven years ago when he fulfilled that initial purpose of his life by winning the championship, he said, "I'm free to be who I want...
Lean did, however, provide compensations. He constructed his picture fastidiously: each scene attains its own symmetry, and is skillfully cantilevered with narrative thrust to the next scene. The film rarely lags. One of the more obvious examples of Lean's technical prowess is the sequence depicting Lawrence's initial desert journey and his growing friendship with his Bedouin guide. It is composed of strict horizontal pans flatly cut by two-shots or close-ups of the camel-mounted pair. When panning with them. Lean cuts both on movement and desert shapes so that not only is the motion shown...
...continuing cut and thrust over CBS's The Selling of the Pentagon last week got closer to the matter of "cut and paste" in Vice President Spiro Agnew's phrase. Representative F. Edward Hébert, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, filed an official complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging that the documentary's producers misleadingly edited film in order to disparage the Pentagon's publicity effort (TIME, April 5). Representative Harley Staggers not only complained to the FCC but also threatened to open an inquiry by his Special Subcommittee on Investigations...
...middle-aged remember them as those darling eight-year-old stars of Hansel and Gretel, tragic dears orphaned by an auto crash, who became the exemplary children of the Marezie Oats oatmeal commercials. To the kids who had to eat the gruel, Pookie and Paul were the double thrust of the '60s youth rebellion. Paul is revered for exposing himself at a Dallas rockfest, Pookie for burning her bra at a Miss America pageant and announcing that "some of my best lovers are high public officials...
...finds it quite inflexible-essentially good for nothing but proscenium staging. "A lot of money was spent to little effect," he claims, "for an arena capability that doesn't exist." He pointed out that no director could manage a genuinely three-sided staging even when the stage is thrust forward and the seats rearranged. "Who's going to direct for the hundred-odd people on either side when you have six-hundred out front?" The size of the Loeb exasperates him, because of its unfairness to non-professional actors. "These are people-sometimes very talented but who have little...