Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROBIN WOOD'S book, the best in English on Hitchcock, analyzes seven of his later films in terms of guilt and cleansing. For Wood Hitchcock's plots implicate his characters in some immoral action, often a murder, and then let them make restitution. Overcoming a psychological paralysis of spirit and action that characterizes guilty men. Hitchcock's characters increase their moral breadth through their confrontation with their capacity for evil. At the same time Hitchcock involves his audiences in the guilty action or in condemnation of the guilty man, then makes them reconsider this endorsement. Wood's structural analysis explains...
...DANIEL BOONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A former slave (Roosevelt Grier), now chief of the Tuscarora Indian tribe, gives ole Dan'l a hand in snatching a British cannon. "Rosy" will be back in other episodes. THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:20 p.m.). Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Roddy McDowall, Robert Redford and Ruth Gordon ramble through the Hollywood of the '30s in Inside Daisy Clover (1966). IT TAKES A THIEF (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Fred Astaire also takes on a recurrent guest-star role as the retired master thief and father of Alexander Mundy (Robert...
...three-play fare is flaccidly representative of regional-theater programming: one funny (A Flea in Her Ear), one classic (The Three Sisters) and one warmed-over Broadway Provocative (Tiny Alice). When he worked off-Broadway, ACT'S director William Ball was a sensitive, scrupulous directorial craftsman (Under Milk Wood, Ivanov). With his own company, Ball has become a puppetmaster who makes his players dance more than they...
...versions of Bird in Space. Not all his works, however, share Bird's elegant abstraction or the witty sophistication of Princess X, a subtly phallic take-off on the society-portrait bust. In his native Rumania, Brancusi had been trained as a cabinetmaker, and when he worked in wood, he could express himself with peasant vigor. The jagged forms of The Cock, shown here in bronze, were originally carved in wood, concentrating the character of the barnyard bully into his aggressive beak and flaring tail feathers. Sidney Geist, author of the leading study of Brancusi's work...
...prodigious comic invention since the halcyon days of Preston Sturges. Lester throws off sight gags and visual puns like some pyrotechnical pinwheel and molds character actors (Richardson, Roy Kinnear, the superb Michael Hordern) into a virtuoso stock company. But he also knows the value of good writing, and Charles Wood's script is a model of subdued rage and satiric precision. "I always used to say 'For Christ's sakes, drop it,'" Mum tells Dad as they reminisce about the bomb. "Now, Mum," Dad gently remonstrates, "that was only when you were tired...