Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would run for President of the United States. He was, in fact, parrying the entreaties of a small group of friends and aides who wanted him to declare his candidacy. "I don't think that is the thing to do," he started to say, but before the last words were out, something clicked and he realized it was the thing to do. This fellow with John Kennedy's forelock and Barry Goldwater's jaw changed his life and, who knows, maybe those of many other people, with just one word. "OK," he said...
...word come? By one account, 13 Apostles (top leaders) experienced a common revelation at a prayer meeting on June 1. In other renditions it came complete with a visitation from Joseph Smith, the prophet of Palmyra, N. Y., who founded the faith in 1830. In an interview, his first since the announcement, Kimball described it much more matter of factly to TIME Staff Writer Richard Ostling: "I spent a good deal of time in the temple alone, praying for guidance, and there was a gradual and general development of the whole program, in connection with the Apostles...
Eventually characters are introduced and dialogue begins-but most of it seems couched in terms of the higher banality: psychobabble, discussions of creativity, even home decoration when money is no problem. Despite advance word that this was to be this deservedly respected writer-director's first entirely serious film, a faint hope stirs. Perhaps he is merely setting up the biggest Woody Allen joke of them all, since this kind of talk, and film making, is one of his best satirical subjects. Alas, the snapper never comes...
...this entry, Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau has never been balmier, and Dyan Cannon gives new blouse to the word blowsy as a sharpshooting businessman's castoff mistress. The movie has more plot than Birth of a Nation, and there is no sign anywhere (save during the credits) of a panther; but those who have battered their thought processes through four previous PPs could care less: they just want more, if possible without paraquat...
Szarkowski's show is not the last word on the state of American photography; in deed, some of his choices, no less than his uncompromisingly aesthetic position, will be a subject of harsh debate. But it deserves to be seen and seen again, for its emphasis on the apolitical, the uneventful, the odd, the dumb and the chancy is now a kind of official view with which photography itself must reckon...