Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of the new masses in motion, the new planes and rapidly changing Government policy, the airlines are flying into uncertain skies. Some of the portents are promising. Says Eastern's Borman: "If people start seeing us as a good replacement for the auto, business could go wild. That's the kind of market we're aiming for. We've taken on the ship and the train, but the private auto is the heavyweight championship." Detroit is not worried yet, but the summer of 1978 has proved that the air travel market can grow much bigger, and that the surest...
Central Square Cinema--Central Square--Psycho, 8, Fingers, 6:15, 9:50. Central II--Night of the Hunter, 6:35, 9:50, The Wild Child...
...backdrop is Wales, with wild flowers in brilliant bloom. And in the foreground is another vision of natural beauty: Katharine Hepburn. If she looks a bit like some high-spirited English school mistress, that's because she is. On location for a television remake of Broadway's 1940 success, The Corn Is Green, Hepburn is cast as the indefatigable Miss Moffat, a sturdy spinster who moves to a Welsh mining town and opens a school. The man in the director's chair is close friend George Cukor, 79, the grand old master who guided Hepburn through nine...
...Snow Leopard, springs from a 250-mile hike that he and Field Biologist George Schaller made five years ago in the Himalayas. Schaller (The Mountain Gorilla, The Serengeti Lion) pushed tirelessly through icy passes and over the Tibetan plateau to observe the rutting habits of the bharal, a wild goatlike animal better known as the blue sheep. He also hoped for a glimpse of the snow leopard, a creature so rare that sightings may soon become as problematic as those of the yeti-the Abominable Snowman...
...caught them in a single moment before or after something has happened. Helen Levitt's high-spirited photographs of children in the over-crowded streets of New York City also point to the cool detachment and relative stillness of Evans' subjects. Her children either dance through the photographs with wild gestures and extreme expressions or stare soulfully out in an effort to grab the viewer's attention. Each individual picture is meant to bowl one over with its content; Levitt follows more in the tradition of social documentarists Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis in her approach. Evans' photographs work...