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...Portis has succeeded in creating in Mattie Ross a triumphant character, with true grit and sand, an original piece of Americana-sort of a Portrait of Whistler's Mother as a Young Girl in Indian Territory. And he has most vividly produced a true mock western: one in which blood flows with the same impact as real tomato soup suddenly gushing out of an Andy Warhol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ballad of Mattie Ross | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

...SUNDAY, May 26, Merce Cunningham and his dance company completed their triumphant eight-show New York season. Five years ago the controversial, perennially avant-garde Cunningham troupe had to scout hard in order to recruit new members; few dancers cared to dance in stark silence, or worse, struggle to maintain their own difficult movement phrasing against the rhythmic and deafening machinations of a John Cage or David Tudor score...

Author: By Maeve Kinkead, | Title: Merce Cunningham & Dance Company | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

LADY SOUL (Atlantic). When ex-Gospel Singer Aretha Franklin sings the blues, they are likely to pour forth wild, bright and triumphant. Aretha's big voice soars and loops and knifes through a swinging rock combo as she sings her own hit, Since You've Been Gone, and her sister

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: May 24, 1968 | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...recording studio just outside Manhattan in 1965. Wes is now firmly ensconced as the top guitarist in jazz, admired and imitated by fellow musicians, triumphant in critics' polls. But in the commercial music world beyond jazz he is still a nonentity. Enter Record Producer Creed Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Wesward Ho, or A Day in the Life | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

Unable to catch Winthrop, Kirkland resorted to power tens, but could only gain two seats. Thirty strokes from the finish Puritan cox Skip Grossman called a power ten and Winthrop crossed the line at 40 strokes per minute. The triumphant boat was clocked at 4:30.5 for the three-quarter mile course...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Winthrop House Captures Straus Cup; Eliot Wins in Crew; Kirkland Second | 5/16/1968 | See Source »

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