Word: charioteer
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Will ride in a fiery chariot...
...directors still weren't satisfied. Having plied the public with promises that wide screen photography would add new breadth to the screen, they just had to figure out some useful thing to put in the new or at least, extended-dimension. When photographing a Roman chariot, the hack director would merely requisition a few more horses. But this was not Art, and Oscar was considered a step brother to art (their mother wasn't married-giving an indication as to what kind of Art we are discussing). Adding more extras to fill in the blank spaces was no real innovation...
Sestieri pressed on, uncovered about 25 kennel-shaped tombs, each six feet long by a yard wide. Outwardly identical with Greek tombs elsewhere in Paestum, these sepulchers were distinguished by livelier and peculiarly individualistic interior paintings of chariot races, departing warriors, gladiators. Sestieri's conclusion: the conquering Lucanians not only took over the Greeks' city, but pre-empted their tombs as well. Executed by Greek artists under Lucanian orders, the sepulchral paintings, he believes, indicate the existence of a previously unknown style of early Italian...
...once with the same cast. Directors were arrogantly demanding 800 horses for a single scene. Drinking orgies, studio spies and gorgeous villas with swimming pools were the rule of the day. The purple sports shirt had replaced the purple toga, and through the narrow vias where Nero's chariot had clanked, the Jaguars were prowling...
During the rest of the picture, Wfllie and Joe rack up enough mileage in that chariot to make Carnival Story a sort of Indianapolis classic of its kind. At first, Willie gets a job in the cook tent, but then the high-diver (Lyle Bettger) gives her a spot in his act. One day he asks her to marry him. Joe does not mind: all he wants is his free ticket on the merry-go-round. Disgusted, Willie weds the high-diver, but Joe soon has her right back where he wants her. Before it all ends, Willie is left...