Word: anarchist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...melancholy strains of a guitar played after a day's labor in the fields; the gnarled branches of the olive trees that cluster throughout the sun-beaten hills. It is the legend of the independence of the leather-skinned Basque farmer, of the fiery spontaneity of the Andalusian anarchist, of the Catalonian workers who stopped work two hours one day to listen to Pablo Casals play the cello on the radio. It is a nation struggling to extricate itself from a destiny of solitude, to establish peace with itself and end its perpetual suffering...
...attempt against Mussolini, is playing this week at the Allston Cinema on Harvard Ave. The film is extraordinarily, good on all counts, and it manages to be uplifting and heart-wrenching all at once. The would-be assassin, played wonderfully by Giancarlo Giannini, is a not too politically astute anarchist who takes on his task after seeing a friend of his murdered by the Fascists. While waiting to take his shot, he is cared for in a bordello where the film's best scenes take place. Wertmuller's movie works both as human drama and as a vehicle for raising...
...little boy hears is the distillation of years full of want and struggle. The political talk is angry, what might be called, at a more comfortable distance, radical. Finally, unable to control his curiosity any longer, the little boy shouts into the other room, "Mommy, what's an anarchist...
SWEETEST CHARITY: Groucho Marx's honorary Oscar. To see film's great anarchist spirit dimmed by age occasioned the night's only long, sad thoughts...
...vejk revisited seems a timely project, especially since it introduces the book's creator, who uncannily resembles his own hero. Jaroslav Hašek's father died of drink in 1896 when the boy was 13. Hasek became a dropout, vagabond, drunk and professed anarchist. He was constantly in trouble and often in jail. Like Švejk, too, he was less political than impudent...