Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pageantry and piety infused with the spirit of the Middle Ages, Zeffirelli almost manages to stage a glorious passion-play. Instead, he drags his characters along like caricatures through a pantomime, sacrificing the magic of a legend to the flatness of a puppet show. Giotto was perhaps the greatest artist to illustrate the life of St. Francis in his frescos at Assisi. Zeffirelli has not been able to prove himself a worthy successor...
...moments--watching Nureyev is always rewarding--and for those who are willing to eat bread when they should be getting cake the film is worth seeing. But one of the great potentials of film is that it can record performances in the other arts, relaying the talents of an artist to those unable to attend live performances, and preserving them for posterity. It is hardly too much to ask that a film about Rudolf Nureyev preserve the dignity of his talents and some semblance of the authentic experience of ballet...
...about guilt once God's forgiveness has been obtained. Though Ignatius designed the Exercises for individuals, they were later applied to the group retreats so vividly reconstructed in James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. A certain violence, even a spiritual terrorism, has often characterized Jesuit rhetoric. The young hero of Portrait, Stephen Dedalus, is reduced to horror by the sermon on hell ("A wave of fire swept through his body ... flames burst forth from his skull"), but after he has gone to confession, "the past was past...
...Self. Like some pharaoh taking his goods with him into the winding darkness below the sand, Picasso in dying has removed an idea of artistic activity from the West-an idea of which he was the last great exponent. It has to do with a passionate omnivorousness, a scale of experience not limited by a priori definitions of what painting or sculpture can carry; with an energetic and Mediterranean humanism. The life springs from the appetites, and the art from both. Or now, "sprang"; for no artist left alive has been able to rival Picasso's cultural embodiment...
...ambitious products by a fan is the 84-page Star Trek Concordance, an index that includes not only plot summaries of the Star Trek episodes, but also definitions and references to every character, planet and term in the series. Co-authored by Bjo Trimble, the 39 year old housewife-artist who organized the "Save Star Trek" letter-writing campaign, the book has sold one thousand copies at five dollars each...