Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zorba the Greek resembles the Cretan landscape which it portrays so magnificently. Its themes are as ancient and clean-cut and harsh as the rocks. For this is a film about the struggle to live--to survive physically, to force nature to yield a living, and to continue to be glad you are alive. And it is about a community, its harsh and timeless rites, its reaction to outsiders...
...parties. Instead she retreats to the country house she bought last March in the wooded hills above the Riviera, a secluded, rustic mansion which she has artfully converted into a kind of sanitarium for all that ails her and her friends. She cooks with imagination and flourish, inspects the yield of her chestnut trees, walks in her woods with her German shepherd dog. "I have begun to find serenity in the last few years," she says. "My life used to be in very poor balance...
...potentialities. In woodcuts, gouging against the grain brought out severe voids and sharp forms whose angularity and deep biting technique excited the expressionists. Edvard Munch was one of the first to carve the agony of his tormented visions from wood. Lithography, a fluid method of drawing on stone to yield bright, matte contours of color, appealed to painters who wished to abandon depth for the challenges of surface arrangements. Kandinsky employed it to probe the relation of point and line to the picture plane...
Northern Song gets no share of the millions that pour in from Beatle concerts and records, but the copyrights to the 56 Lennon-McCartney songs yield it about $1,400,000 a year in royalties. "McCartney and Lennon," boasts Dick James, the company president, "are going to be the Rodgers and Hammerstein of the future." Security analysts who want to chart the stock had better put away their tables and keep a close watch on the youngsters' Beatlemania...
...strike, which has forced the paper to produce a limited edition available only at the plant, has now passed Springfield's: it entered its 152nd day at week's end. And although bargaining negotiations have been resumed after months of apartness, neither side shows much disposition to yield. Management and labor, said a Guild spokesman, were still "far from settlement...