Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Generation light show, employing spotlights, slide projectors and blinking flashbulbs. He provided a continuous flow of color patterns that alternately suggested cityscapes, outer space, subterranean depths. Nikolais devised a series of sliding movements for The Globolinks that suggested weightlessness, and also designed their costumes; males had white tubelike bodies with stick antennas atop their heads; the females sprouted wings. It was a triumph of modern stagecraft the Santa Fe Opera will have trouble surpassing when it offers the U.S. premiere next August...
...cruise director: "There is a group of men and women aboard ship," she begins, "who are using fictitious names-one is a chief of police, here with his mistress or possibly unknown wife not united in marriage by his church . . . These men I accuse of operating a white slave ring. I want them taken to task. I am my own boss." A wild-eyed Denver merchant corners Milgrim in a hallway and through clenched teeth mutters, "Don't think I don't know what's going on here. The filth, the filth." A legal secretary from Long...
...Irish and Negro rebels is less natural than it is facile, but in Dassin's hands, there is little attempt to translate the classic into contemporary cinema. Instead, he has simply sought to make a negative of the original, with shades of black instead of grades of white...
...alcoholic steelworker, appropriately named Tank (Julian Mayfield), is rejected by his white employers and his black power-hungry companions. When one of the rebels murders a man during a holdup, Tank, blinded by resentment and fumes of booze, turns him in for $1,000 in reward money. Assailed by guilt, he abruptly endows a sidewalk preacher and a bunch of barflies with $20 bills. Militants spot the trail of green and run Tank to earth. Almost gratefully he accepts their revenge: a bullet in the stomach...
...spring holds less flamboyant promises, as well. John Cheever has finished Bullet Park, a chronicle of fathers and sons and the communications chasm in suburbia. Kurt Vonnegut has found a subject that will support any amount of black humor and white rage, fire-bombing of Dresden-which he lived through as a war prisoner. In Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud writes of an impoverished painter who outwits a gang of forgers who force him to turn out a new Titian. From Paris comes The Fruits of Winter, the new Prix Goncourt winner that was the occasion for enough scheming...