Word: anarchist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always specialized in negative criticism-literary, political, cinematic, cultural-because I've found so few contemporary products about which I could be 'constructive' without hating myself in the morning." If Macdonald is disappointed by American culture, he is "appalled" by American politics. His "time-tested anarchist principles" have made him almost as hard on fellow leftists as on Goldwater Republicans, and perhaps hardest of all on liberals. Drawing from the back files of Politics, the superb little magazine he edited and published (and often practically wrote) between 1944 and 1949, he offers the definitive gloomy word...
PATERSON, NEW JERSEY is a place that inspires people. It inspired poets Allan Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams, it inspired Angelo Bresci, the anarchist who killed King Humbert I of Italy before World War I, and to the city's lasting pride, it inspired "Leaping" Sam Patch, the only man to leap Niagara Falls without a protective device...
Love and Anarchy. A peasant anarchist named Tunin comes to Rome to kill Mussolini. But his intention--which at first balanced the ideological and the personal into committed purpose--becomes perverted when he enters the city and a life where people market themselves out of bitterness and fear. Here, at the bordello where he prepares for his mission, as he clings to his humanity he can only lose his vision. He sets a trap for himself. One of the best political films in a long while...
...Hungary, traveling incessantly: now to England to ride after hounds, now to Turkey to explore Schliemann's diggings at Troy. She even translated Shakespearean plays into modern Greek. Primping and dieting narcissistically, Elisabeth remained an international beauty until she was 60, when she was killed by an Italian anarchist while boarding a steamer on Lake Geneva...
...ignorant, country peasant (Tunin) so fearful of death he scarcely utters a complete sentence or moves a facial muscle throughout the movie. Tunin is bent on assassinating Mussolini to avenge the death of a friend by Fascist henchmen. He sells his cow and goes off to learn from the anarchist Brighenti gang how to shoot a pistol. Waiting for the dictator's appearance at a public rally, he hides out in one of Rome's highclass bordellos, only to be thwarted when two whores fall in love with him and fail to wake him on the appointed...