Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First came the hemline revolution, then the permanent wave. Last week the Kremlin authorized yet another step in the transformation of the Soviet woman from proletarian heroine to bourgeois feline. Out of an old beauty salon on Moscow's Gorky Street it created the Institute of Cosmetology, which, when it opens next year, will have a staff of 300 specialists. Purpose of the institute, according to Tass: "The perfection of the human face and body...
...glance, measuring the assessment against every subsequent pause and gesture. Through ever-changing shades of perfidy on both sides of the Wall, the drama inches toward its bitter climax, made more agonizing by Ritt's detachment. He simply records an event and lets the shock wave follow...
Jazz THE NEW WAVE IN JAZZ (Impulse!). Five combos, led by avant-garde Jazzmen John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Charles Tolliver, Grachan Moncur and Albert Ayler. "Trane" sets the stage by skywriting his personal hieroglyphics with his tenor sax. Even farther out is Saxophonist Ayler. His Holy Ghost consists of hysterical, sizzling squiggles of sound played fast and high, while a drummer beats insistently, as though knocking on a locked door. "It's about feelings," Ayler explains...
Convinced that Communism is the wave of the future in Viet Nam, he does not miss a chance to tell his readers that there is no alternative to letting Hanoi have its way. Bombing, he insists, can have no appreciable effect. The North Vietnamese, he says, "have a totally unshakable determination to win the war . . . they reject the machinery of compromise...
...Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute and learned to create characters that are all skin and no insides. She tried her hand at avantgarde drama and learned to produce dialogue so obscure it passes for profound. She wrote several scripts (Hiroshima, Man Amour, Moderate Cantabile) for the French New Wave directors and learned to compose prose that reads like camera directions-possibly economical, certainly cheap. All these skills are brought relentlessly to bear in this collection of four short novels that profess to describe four different "modes" of love. They were received with grave respect by the French...