Word: yarning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...echoes sometimes blend into a solid chorus, credit must be divided between Director Gene Kelly and his choreographer, Michael Kidd. Ernest Lehman's script is based on the Broadway musical (which was based on Thornton Wilder's farce The Matchmaker). It is woven from a solitary yarn. Matchmaker Dolly Levi sets great store by Horace Vandergelder's feed and grain store and decides to snare him for her own. She does. Curtain. In between their coy runaround, tiny complications arise. None of them matter, but several are the premises for blithe and sumptuous dance numbers. The most...
...WILD BUNCH. There are equally generous doses of blood and poetry in this western directed by Sam Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both a fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the best Hollywood directors...
...WILD BUNCH. There are equally generous doses of blood and poetry in this raucous western directed by Sam Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both an uncommonly fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the very best Hollywood directors...
...WILD BUNCH. There are equally generous doses of blood and poetry in this raucous, magnificent western directed by Sam Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both an uncommonly fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the very best Hollywood directors...
...maritime editor of the Baltimore Sun. So there she was last week, still at work pending Senate confirmation, dictating a story over ship-to-shore radio from the mammoth ice-breaking tanker S.S. Manhattan on its voyage through the Northwest Passage to Alaska. It must have been a salty yarn, too, because a monitoring station in Iowa picked up some unprintable language-which, of course, is against FCC regulations. Upshot of it all: the Humble Oil & Refining Co., the ship's owner, banned all voice transmissions, not only for Mrs. Bentley but for every reporter on the trip...