Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Year at Marienbad. The French New Wave, which has saltily subsided, nevertheless flung up the intellectual sensation of the year, a tour de force of cubistic cinema in which Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) dismantles reality and reassembles it in a monstrous maze whose exit is its entrance...
...year-old Senghor served in the postwar French Assembly, even sat in the Paris Cabinet (as Secretary of State for Scientific Research) under Premier Edgar Faure. He is also a devout African nationalist and prominent exponent of "négritude''-the concept that sees Africa as the wave of the future. Nevertheless, Senghor is convinced that Senegal's best hopes for strength and prosperity lie in continued close association with France. Such a philosophy suits French President Charles de Gaulle just fine; it is one reason France provides Senegal with $50 million in aid a year, almost...
Shock Effects. Last week Moscow heard what Shostakovich had composed instead, and the thin jokes vanished in a wave of applause. A masterful 13th Symphony rang through the Moscow Conservatory with a power and daring that proved that 20 years of apologizing for the art-for-art beauty of his early work had not, after all, sapped Shostakovich's strength...
...target can be hidden away. The plane flies faster than the sound of its own approach and it is too low to be spotted by radar' Men on the scene do not know that their pictures have been taken until the plane is gone and its trailing shock wave has hit them...
...Jimmy Durante has shriveled away till he looks like a mere appendage of that incomparable proboscis, long may it wave. But age cannot wither nor custom stale his infinite sameness. In 1962 he is essentially what he was in 1950, when he made his last movie. He is Jimmy, a quite ordinary little fellow who looks slightly confused and absurdly belligerent, as though in total darkness he had stepped on the teeth of a rake, and the handle had popped up and hit him in the nose, and there he stands, punching wildly and wondering...