Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across her ravaged face chase self-pity, fear, vanity and - finally - triumph, when she kicks the heel who tried to tread on her. Overshadowed, Christopher Walken plays Chance from the crotch - not inappropriately, consider ing the man's end. The overall impression is of a classy parody of Pal Joey...
Multimillion-dollar movies are usually open to the press as they are being made; their heavy tread can be heard clumping toward the theaters for a year prior to release. Kubrick's locations, however, were closed. Not a single publicity still emerged without the director's express approval, which was almost never granted. Thus the only word on Barry Lyndon came from actors and technicians, none of them privy to Kubrick's vision, and some wearied and literally sickened by his obsessive perfectionism...
...delegates' lounge at the United Nations building, sipping red Dubonnet on the rocks and glumly sidestepping questions. A few minutes earlier, he had canceled a press conference at which he had intended to announce that he was resigning because of criticism of his don't-tread-on-me style as ambassador. But in a series of frantic, last-minute telephone calls, high Administration officials had persuaded him to postpone his decision and talk over his grievances this week with President Gerald Ford...
Jung rushed in where Freud feared to tread: into an exotic Zion built on scientific method but furnished by the ages. There was a place in Jung's world for the philosophy of ancient Asia and classical Greece, for the Gnosticism of early Christianity, for medieval alchemy, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, for Romanticism and the occult...
...years. As a book, it is a little underfurnished. There is no commentary, no analysis, only the bare scripts ac companied by a few photos. Yet it escapes nonbook status, thanks to the peculiarly literary nature of Bob & Ray's medium. From Fred Allen's 1954 Tread mill to Oblivion to the recent multi-volume compilations of the BBC's Goon Show, reprinted radio routines have proved surprisingly readable, and for sound reason. Alone among comedy forms, they celebrate the primacy of the word...