Word: treks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas Flyer arrived in San Francisco, thus ending the easiest part of the trip. Five foreign cars-from a French De Dion to an Italian Zust-trailed far behind. Boarding a freighter, Schuster headed to Japan, crossed to Vladivostok, then set out on the long trek across Siberia. Where there were no roads, Schuster made do with railroad tracks. When he ran out of oil, he lubricated the engine with Vaseline, a substance that lesser men of the era used on their hair, and he managed to find a bed to sleep in only five times in 72 days. Finally...
Affluent America will have ample opportunity during the next few weeks to weigh the extensive-perhaps explosive -demands of the black poor. Last week, stepping out from shantytowns and slums throughout the nation, more than 1,200 marchers of the Poor People's Campaign began the trek toward Washington. Some were weathered field hands who had never before left the cotton-blown bottoms; others were rambunctious teen-agers splitting from a desperate scene. "The cause this march represents is alarmingly real," wrote Atlanta Constitution Editor Eugene Patterson. "Before any white man passes judgment on it, he ought to understand...
...scalpers have Burt's furs now, so he trails them as they trek, scheming to get his own back, while Davis makes himself useful around the wagon (at one point he gives Shelley a wash and set that would do credit to Kenneth or Alexandre). The rest of the movie is devoted to Lancaster's strata gems-this is where the brilliantly photographed avalanche and the stampede come in-and Davis' rather pat redemption from the psychological bonds of slavery. In the end, the scalpers get their just deserts, of course, and the Indians get revenge, plus...
Last week ICA turned its back on its threadbare past, moved into new quarters in London's Pall Mall, not far from Buckingham Palace and only a few moments' trek from Trafalgar Square. Not that ICA has any intention of changing its way-out ways. Says Sir Roland Penrose, who has chaired the institute since its founding: "Painter, musician, poet, sculptor, actor, playwright, film director are all looking for ways of jumping into their neighbors' shoes-or at least running three-legged races with them. The new ICA gallery will encourage these trends...
...endlessly on the qualities of space travel; unfortunately they ignore such old-fashioned elements as character and conflict. As the ship arcs through the planetary void it is an object of remarkable beauty-but in an effort to convey the idea of careening motion, the sound track accompanying the trek plays The Blue Danube until the banality undoes the stunning photography. The film's best effects do not occur until the second part, but when they arrive, they provide the screen with some of the most dazzling visual happenings and technical achievements in the history of the motion picture...