Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very militancy, the Inquirer contrasts as sharply with Atlanta's established Negro paper, the World, as does the new Negro generation with the old. Early in 1960, when the first wave of sit-in demonstrations swept the South, the World did not approve. "The unfortunate news coming out of Jacksonville, Florida," editorialized the conservative daily, taking note of a sit-in in that city, "is to be highly regrettable...
...that lasted two hours, 1,000 Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese soldiers had attacked to a frenzied blowing of bugles. The Ban Hat Bo garrison fled, along with their five U.S. military advisers. One of them noted bitterly that the Communist assault, with its tooting bugles and the human-wave technique, was "Korea all over again...
...name is Mirisch, and hardly anyone has heard of it except the Bank of America. The Mirisch Co., Inc. was formed in 1957 by three brothers who were anxious to leave their salaried executive positions at Allied Artists and join the "indie" wave. In less than four years they have grossed $43 million, achieving the fiscal stature of a major studio, and even a partial list of their credits is enough to make M-G-M wish its initials could be changed...
...Cheaters (Silver-Zebra; Continental) and Frantic (Times Film Co.). French moviemakers have lately had the notion that any film in which the young wear duffel coats, drink too much and charge about on motor scooters belongs to the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave, and should therefore be as fashionable as sinning after lunch. Two recent arrivals resound to the phoot-phoot of scooters, but they nonetheless belong to the most ancienne of vagues-bad films. Cheaters is a solemn exercise in which Jacques Charrier, a pretty young man married to Brigitte Bardot, and some friends behave with what they...
...ITALIAN: Violent Summer is an old wave film about a short, sensuous, foredoomed affair played out in Fascist Italy In Two Women, mother (Sophia Loren) and daughter (Eleonora Brown) prove that in World War II Italy, only those who suffer can love. La Dolce Vita is a sprawling, formless masterpiece of modern Rome's spiritual depravity and sexual excess, and L'Avventura is another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates...