Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underground movie came to Boston with some respectability last week when Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls inaugurated the Boston branch of the Film-makers Cinematheque. The 3 1/2-hour movie was prefaced by two brief introductions, the second emphasizing the relevance of underground films to modern life: the underground people depict what is evil and corrupt in man; we must turn and look at our own worst sides before we can guide ourselves well in the future...
...premise behind The Chelsea Girls is that underground life can teach its own lessons if it is carefully enough examined...
...shape, roughly, of the Pan Am Building, the color and texture of Mies van der Robe's Seagram tower. The skyscraper complex will include a five-story, 250-room hotel, a department store, restaurants, galleries, shops, a skating rink, a movie theater and a 1,500-car underground parking lot. Near by will be two office-apartment buildings (one 20, the other 19 stories tall) and a 15-story building, which will also house the new railroad station...
...Czech farm hand (he was born Jan Ludwig Hoch), Maxwell left school at ten, left his family's one-room Carpathian mountain home at 16 to join the underground fighting Hitler. Later he made his way to Britain, joined the British army as a private, left as a captain. With the profits of some shrewd postwar trading in German scientific manuscripts, he bought Pergamon in 1951 for $36,400, cajoled experts from all over the world into writing scientific tomes for him. Fluent in nine languages including Russian, he won a virtual corner on rights to Soviet scientific works...
Sartre's cage is the problem of life lived in the face of imminent violent death. A group of Underground fighters are caught after a bloody, but unsuccessful mission. Only their leader, Jean (Carl Nagin, also the play's translator) escapes. Later he is taken into the cage under an assumed identity, watches his comrades and lover as they go out to be tortured, and then flees. Of the others, one Sorbier (Dominic Meiman) commits suicide rather than talk, and a young boy (Edward Jay) is killed by his fellows rather than be permitted to talk. The three others...