Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COACH WITH THE SIX INSIDES, originally presented in 1962, as Jean Erdman's phantasmagorial interpretation of Finnegans Wake, blending the richness of Joycean language with drama techniques and music and dance for an intensely imaginative evening of theater...
...causing a disastrous twister in Chicago's suburbs. Meanwhile, the southern jet stream, after an exceptionally cold, wet run over California, dried out and warmed up so thoroughly as it crossed the Continental Divide that it left huge chunks of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida parched in its wake. Meandering farther north than usual, the southern stream ran smack into the polar air mass over the East, causing exceptionally heavy rains and unseasonal snowfalls...
Unfortunately the most interesting angle in Hurry Sundown -- the Caine character and his giant industrial complex, symbolic of the sudden change coming over the South in the wake of the war -- is ultimately lost beneath a rubbish of uninteresting violence and melodrama. A trial scene straight out of Perry Mason (via Horton Foote and To Kill a Mockingbird) works by itself but doesn't jell at all with the rest of the picture. A hopelessly embarrassing songfest, at which the town's entire Negro population is conveniently present, reminds one of similar affairs in Marx Bros. movies...
Volpone's "dying" messages go out to three wealthy women: A loud-mouthed Hollywood actress (Edie Adams), a disdainful princess (Capucine), and a tough-talking Texan (Susan Hayward) who hates Venice ("All that water in those damn creeks"). In Hayward's wake comes a mousy nurse (Maggie Smith) who feeds her catty mistress sleeping pills every night...
Since their formation in the wake of Foreman's October visit, the Friends of SNCC have been a small thorn in the administration's side. Dubbed a "provisional campus organization," they were allowed to meet in the religious center, and, theoretically, to use university facilities, just like any other full-fledged campus organization. But in March, the administration apparently thought it had found the issue with which it could gracefully get the Friends of SNCC out of its hair. A group of Negro performers, known as the Gospel Singers, were arrested in East Texas, and allegedly beaten by local police...