Word: welds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Occasionally, though, the camera goes so far as to leave the cinemagoer in limbo while actors turn their backs to acknowledge a theater audience's applause. Even more distracting is the restless search for new camera angles-a sure way to fragmentize those subtle lines of communication that weld the viewer's attention to a stage performer putting over a song. And when its sprightly tunes are muted by the simple, episodic story line, Stop the World becomes merely a nervy novelty and looks like the brand of canned theater that might better have been disposed of after...
...letters got results. In the spring of '61 there were rumors that Weld Hall, the one-time freshman residence of both Potter's friends and John Kennedy, might be remodeled. Potter sent a third carbon plea, carefully typed to look like a form letter with a "Save Weld Committee" letterhead, to President Kennedy. The letter explained that Weld should be preserved in its original state as an historic monument because "a President of the United States slept there." Unlike almost every piece of mail the White House receives, the letter never received any acknowledgement...
Last week the Metropolitan District Commission constructed and put into operation three high-power electric lights along the banks of the Charles River between the Weeks Bridge and the Weld Boathouse. But the most dangerous part of the riverbank remains under-lit and inadequately patrolled...
...Bill Weld played Vera Similitude as though she were a gigantic doll. After this stopped being amusing (about three minutes, Vera became a liability, since she was substantially less believable than the rest of the characters...
Lord Love A Duck is a murky black satire about a teen-age dropout whose every wish comes true. Except for Tuesday Weld's Saturday-night zest, the audience's wishes are unfulfilled. Roddy McDowall, as a teen genie, enables Tuesday to vamp her high school principal, cavort seductively with her father, bury her mother, marry too soon, dispose of her young husband and become a beachnik movie star. All the nonsense strives to spoof the ethos of American youth, but the film's real message-which obviously appeals to Producer-Director-Writer George Axelrod-is delivered...