Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edward Kienholz is a former farmer turned artist who is making a name for himself with grisly "tableaux," assemblages of unrelated objects that range from plastic bubbles to coat racks. He typifies a new wave in California...
...Scalpels. The operation's success brought a wave of relief-and some good-natured jokes. According to one, Lyndon had ordered his surgeon to use 150 scalpels so he could pass them out to Congressmen in lieu of pens. Another averred that, immediately on awakening, Lyndon aimed to telephone Hubert: "Get out of my chair." In fact, Humphrey got nowhere near it. For a few hours, he was on call in the Executive Office Building across the street from the White House, but no call ever came. His unofficial tenure as Acting President was over by lunchtime...
...Glorious Records." Nearly a generation after her crushing defeat in World War II, Japan is experiencing a wave of nostalgia for "the Pacific War." Every Sunday at 9 a.m., tots around the country gather before the TV to watch "Zero Fighter Hayato" knock a dozen American P-38s or Wildcats from the skies. Plastic-model Zero fighters and picture books are bestsellers from Hokkaido to Kyushu, while adults are now reading a book called Glorious Records, which praises the wartime Burma-Siam railway project that built the bridge over the River Kwai. A new series of junior high school history...
Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Contempt), presently riding the crest of the New Wave, began the festival with his most recent film, Alphaville. His hero, Lemmy Caution, is a cross between Dick Tracy and Flash Gordon, spiced with a touch of Humphrey Bogart. (At one point we catch Caution reading The Big Sleep.) Godard lets his imagination run wild as his comic-strip hero battles the computer-king of a super-mechanized science fiction city. Neon signs flash mathematical formulas across the screen, and the computer growls instructions from what looks like a CBS recording studio...
...advantage for Harvard is Tufts' manpower shortage. Arlanson will probably have to depend on 15 or 16 players--nine will play both offense and defense--to counter the Crimson's human wave tactics...