Word: thunderbolting
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Henry V. Something resembling a thunderbolt is heard offstage. Out of nowhere, what seem like a hundred men are shouting, sweating, straining as they haul a cannon to stage center. It belches smoke. It is hidden in smoke. The whole theater is going up in smoke. A man has mounted the cannon, but it is difficult to see him, let alone hear him. He is King Henry V (George Grizzard), and what he is saying is, "God for Harry, England and St. George." What the scene is saying is-the prop's the thing...
...Venice in 1951. That year the least promising item on the cinemenu was a Japanese picture called Rashomon. Japanese pictures, as all film experts knew, were just a bunch of rubber chrysanthemums. So the judges sat down yawning. They got up dazed. Rashomon was a cinematic thunderbolt that violently ripped open the dark heart of man to prove that the truth was not in it. In technique the picture was traumatically original; in spirit it was big, strong, male. It was obviously the work of a genius, and that genius was Akira Kurosawa, the earliest herald...
...beauty, by those great golden long-legged girls. So shy at first before your metallic eyes, your frosted smile So shy. And the anguish in the depths of skyscraper streets Lifting eyes hawkhooded to the sun's eclipse. Sulphurous your light and livid the towers with heads that thunderbolt the sky The skyscrapers which defy the storms with muscles of steel and stone-glazed hide. But two weeks on the bare sidewalks of Manhattan At the end of the third week the fever seizes you with the pounce of a leopard...
...this only whetted interest. In the absence of forthright denials, the story-and the rumors-grew. Last March, The Realist, a shabby Greenwich Village periodical, published the fact of the Blauvelt genealogical entry as an "expose." So, a bit later, did Birmingham's antiSemitic, anti-Negro circular, The Thunderbolt ("The White Man's Viewpoint"). So, in June, did The Winrod Letter, a oamphlet put out by the Rev. Gordon Winrod of Little Rock. Racist organizations in the South and crackpot groups everywhere photostated these pieces and sent them out as junk mail by the scores of thousands...
Among 80,000 Thais who streamed into a Bangkok park to see John Glenn's Friendship 7 space capsule, going round the world this time at eye level, was Thailand's Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn (means "Possessor of the Thunderbolt"), 10. The short-pants prince's first question...