Word: wr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People think I'm a big-shot movie star, and some of wr my friends have started to treat me differently. But I tell them I'm just like any other kid on the street. This hasn't changed me at all." It is easy to take fame when you're 80 or 8½, which Justin Henry is now. And his four-month plunge into the glamorous world of big stars and big movies affected him about as much as a summer at camp. It was, he insists, "no big thing...
...Carpenter Center opens its fall film series with Dusan Makavejev's 1968 film Innocence Unprotected. A visiting professor at Harvard this year, the Yugoslavian filmmaker has achieved international reknown with such films as Man is Not a Bird (1966). A Love Affair: Tragedy of a Switchboard Operator(1967), WR: Mysteries of the Organism(1971), and Sweet Movie(1974). Recognized for the vitality and independence of his hotch potch style--juxtaposing science and eroticism, matching up a switchboard operator with a rat exterminator--Makavejev is an exciting addition to Harvard's film department. He will be present at the Friday night...
...format ABC has fashioned around its new evening star may not be the best, but it is as personalized as Walters' weadily wecognizable delivewy (WR substitution, speech therapists call it). She was allowed to display her interviewing talents with Sadat two nights in a row, with a Pennsylvania health official (about fallout in the state from a Chinese nuclear test last month) and with several ABC correspondents. She spoke to all of them over a 24-in. television screen on the show's aseptic-looking silvery gray set. Walters also introduced a somewhat stagy filmed report...
...this was followed by Operation Petrolandia, involving the First Infantry and Fourth Cavalry Divisions as well as the First Air Force Squadron. And unlike the limited press reports which had marked Alkali Canyon, Petrolandia was fully described in Solider, the journal of the US armed forces. According to USN&WR the "Army's crack 82nd Airborne Division...spearhead of any such (Middle East) operation...regularly practices parachute drops over the desert around For Bliss, Texas, and annually trains for long distance operations with troop, drops in Greece, Turkey, and South Korea...
...years ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then it has acquired a justifiably vile reputation. A sort of live-action animated cartoon, the movie is a paean to the joys of insanity. Should there be any mistaking this intent, Director Dusan Makavejev (who made another Reichian parable, WR-Mysteries of the Organism) includes a little ditty with the refrain, "It's a joy to be crazy/ Good to be sad.../ Good to practice deadly sin/ To be alive and to win." Irony, if intended, is imperceptible...