Word: unfolds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wertmuller's inability to represent political choices in a meaningful way reflects the violently anti-political thrust of her work. In each of her films, political principles are beliefs that characters adhere to abstractly, and which bear no relation to their lives. In fact, as her films unfold it becomes apparent that the characters' political principles are in conflict with their lifestyles; when they discover this contradiction, they abandon politics for the things that really make Wertmuller's universe revole; sex, emotions, and material ambition...
...trial, she arrived in court carrying the red robe that she had been wearing on the day of the incident. When she disrupted the proceedings, the judge sent her to wait in a cell of the federal courthouse in Sacramento. There she even refused to watch her fate unfold on closed-circuit TV. Boycotting her own trial, defiant to the end, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, 27, was found guilty last week of attempting to assassinate President Ford. She could be sentenced to prison for life...
Bashevis Singer is a master story-teller, concerned more with the subject of his tales than with the way they unfold. The only form of self-consciousness is a simple kind, coming from the characters that often tell stories within Bashevis Singer's stories. In "Sam Palka and David Vishkover," for instance, Sam tells the recorder/narrator of his double life as a Park Avenue big-man nagged by his wife and, under the pseudonym of Vishkover, as a simple salesman in the eyes of a naive mistress. Sam's small pauses during the telling of his story, self-conscious caesuras...
...revelations of mass and space. The pub lic, pronounced one Beaux-Arts professor, "need never ask the way in a good plan." Ideally, one was carried forward by the logic of the plan as, at a play, one was swept along by the plot. The buildings were meant to unfold. This feeling for ritual movement, the promenade, would almost disappear from architecture in the 20th century; and yet it was functional. Gamier was one of the last to recognize that fantasy and ceremonial had valid roles in secular architecture. People did not just go to the opera to see performance...
TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager, who has watched the violence unfold since last spring, cabled this report on the new fighting in Beirut...