Word: wanderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Terrill found China in the grip of a "mental unity" created by "the myth of Mao thought." Yet in daily life he noted an "appealing imprecision. People wander around; daydream. They don't mince like Japanese, but amble as men in secure possession of the earth under their feet." He also was struck by the candor of those he interviewed. At Canton's Sun Yat-sen University, he talked with Professor Fu Chih-lung, a Minnesota Ph.D. in biology, who had given up theoretical research to develop a new breed of insects that would kill agricultural pests...
...Wheels, without the geographical limitations of his earlier schlockbusters, Hotel and Airport, Hailey lets his high-octane narrative wander throughout the city: black-white confrontation in a parking lot, murder in a car factory, adultery in a motel. Eerily for me, many of the scenes take place in the shopping centers, auto dealerships and driveways of my home town of Birmingham, also home of the rocky marriage of Adam and Erica Trenton. Adam, the book's hero, is reportedly modelled on GM Vice President John DeLorean, known in the industry as a young Turk because he used to drive foreign...
...final cultural note: Millhouse is being shown in Boston at Allston's Video Theatre, a closed-circuit TV operation. Now true, what better way to wander down memory lane with the Nixon of our collective past than by means of the very medium which long ago salvaged his career. Still. I'm not all that happy with the proposition. Ninety-three minutes of uninterrupted TV can be a wearing experience, ultimately making De Antonio's film appear longer and less well constructed than it is. And, while I'm prepared to accept the current wisdom that video is indeed...
...forced to work to feed her two children, a ten-year-old boy named Hung and a baby girl, Xuan. Circumstances deteriorate; the village burns, and the family moves in with unsympathetic relatives. After a time, the wife dies of a sarcoma of the leg, and the two children wander through the city, waiting for their father to return. The remainder of the film follows them: shining shoes, peddling newspapers, begging...
...overwritten, overpraised work is the result of minor talents pursuing significance like hounds chasing after an endangered species. The film employs all the stock subjects of contemporary fiction, from the insensitive husband (Kenneth Mars) to the anaesthetized heroine (Shirley MacLaine). Her name is Sophie, a Manhattan housewife compelled to wander glassily through Frank D. Gilroy's scenario like a science-fiction victim: The Woman Without a Brain...