Word: angellic
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...imprecise and unclear. The music also accomplishes nothing more than a gesture. Two themes dominate, one an expensive, lyrical motif, which appears in all the places one would expect it, and the other a rapid undulating figure which may have indicated tension when Prokofiev employed it in the "Fiery Angel" but now only suggests spiders crawling furiously about their webs...
...peasant (Anna Magnani) mistakes for Jesus in Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle (1948). For Fellini, however, God was a goddess and woman was the world -- everything in the world that excites and frightens, forbids and enchants. To Marcello in La Dolce Vita, woman is "mother, sister, daughter, lover, angel, home." How small and sad and funny men are in comparison! At one end of the spectrum they are like the midget bluenose in Boccaccio 70 (1962) overwhelmed by Anita Ekberg as a sexual giantess -- it's the attack of the 50-ft. libido. At the other end they are like...
...Angel and Sinner" at 7:30 p.m. The film is setduring the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The superblandscape photography serves as a dramaticbackground for the diverse factual characters andtheir conflicts...
...soft and hard focus lense filter. Very rarely does he use either pure black or white. In a Bergmanesque fashion, he places the camera strategically to strengthen the film's allegorical strains. Gelsomina is always seen from slightly above, as if she were being watched by a guardian angel. During an Easter parade the camera looks upwards, circling around the massive crosses to emphasize their grandeur. Fellini then once again switches to following Gelsomina's passage through the crowd from above, placing her frailty in relation to God's looming presence. Often the viewer feels a sort of detached sadness...
...account of Tailhook's reputation, a militant feminist "security patrol" with Guardian Angel-like berets and walkie-talkies circled the perimeter to protect other women on the hotel grounds, but the leader admitted that "it seems to be a pretty tame crowd. They're all old. I guess what we're doing is - mostly symbolic." Participants in the Mrs. America pageant, who happened to be convening in another hall 200 yds. away, also displayed uneasiness. Mrs. Florida, Jacqueline Mallery Solomon, said she had "expressed my concern" to the hotel and asked for "proper security...