Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge Semprun (Z), present their Stavisky as a doom-haunted manic-depressive and try to groom him into a symbol for all of prewar France. There is a subplot involving Trotsky, who had sought asylum in France during that time, and Resnais obviously hoped to suggest that the swindler and the Communist here represent in effect the two political alternatives between which the country had to choose. This notion remains unwieldy as a device and unresolved as an idea. Resnais does not fracture his time structure...
...A.A.A. has reportedly expanded its enemies' list to include a former Roman Catholic bishop, an army general, a union leader, several politicians, lawyers, entertainers, university professors and journalists. The threats have already caused a mini-diaspora. University Rectors Rodolfo Puiggrós and Raul Laguzzi have taken asylum in Mexico. Folk Singer Horacio Guarany fled to Venezuela last week. Actress Nacha Guevara left for Peru as did Comedian Norman Briski. Although it has not been directly linked to the A.A.A., the murder of General Prats has put Argentina's large community of political exiles on notice that...
...little espionage work and in his well-oiled lust for Julie. Just as she be gins to warm to him - despite an initial reserve that would have done Mary Poppins credit - his enemies at the KGB grow bolder. He requires Julie as a go-between to trade for his asylum a nice piece of intelligence: the name of Russia's top agent in Britain...
...another explanation is that Colson has lost touch with reality. When he was talking to Bast, he appeared calm at times, at times quite agitated. At one point he remarked to the detective: "You might think I belong in an asylum." A Colson associate thinks that impending imprisonment may have weighed on him: "Look, you're going to jail. You get pretty desperate." In a sense, Colson's CIA fantasies are not that far removed from some of his previous schemes: fire-bombing the Brookings Institution, for instance, or forging cables linking President Kennedy to the assassination...
Oedipus into Santa Claus-yet the fact was that Dadd, far from becoming one of those psychotic artists whose scribbles are only, or mainly, of interest to analysts, painted many of his best works in the asylum. He labored in a solitude, a vacuum of response, which might have crushed another artist. But it may be that Dadd's enforced seclusion helped sharpen the obsessive quality of his inner vision. Behind bars, time and detail never end. The evidence is up in London's Tate Gallery this summer through August: poor Dadd's first one-man show...