Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other Vision. To many American Negroes, the acme of success is symbolized by the world of Adam Clayton Powell: the nirvana of the deprived, where the Good Life is also the Sportin' Life, and where power cruisers, beauty-queen girl friends and expense-account junkets are the talismans of achievement. At the other pole is the Negro's deeper vision of equality with white Americans in terms of individual intellect, ability and dignity. That vision is embodied by Senator Brooke...
...cabin in Colorado, has radically rewritten movie grammar. By fragmenting his films into frames, Brakhage has established the frame in cinema as equivalent to the note in music; whereupon he proceeds to make films with frames the way a composer makes music with notes. His Art of Vision, an attempt to do for cinema what Bach did for music with his Art of the Fugue, is an ambitious example of what Brakhage calls retinal music. One problem: to watch the violently flickering flick for 4½ hours, a spectator would require steel eyeballs...
Although Blow-Up reveals a maturity of Antonioni's style, its simplistic vision of social decay shows him taking a sharp turn in the wrong direction. Blow-Up's surface brilliance tends to camoflage the intellectual excesses of a director in danger of running out of things to say. But Blow-Up is undeniably one of the most interesting films released in 1966, a striking presentation of a personal viewpoint with some pretty good film-making in the bargain...
...President's vision limited to the U.S. In yet another message, Johnson revealed that the U.S. was sending 2,000,000 tons of grain to drought-stricken India, asked Congress to approve an additional allocation of grain "not to exceed 3,000,000 tons" and with the proviso that "it is appropriately matched by other countries." Though that carefully limited proposal caused some consternation in New Delhi, the President made eloquently clear the U.S.'s commitment to a "continuing world campaign against hunger...
...engineering flight, a manned shakedown for the Apollo systems, which had already twice been fired aloft without anyone aboard. If things went well, Apollo 204 would lead to two other manned flights later this year, and then, possibly as early as 1968, to fulfillment of man's ancient vision of a landing on the moon...