Word: continuums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Federico Fellini's Casanova is a fantastic puppet-show. Loosely structured on Casanova's autobiography, the film relates his amorous adventures in an anecdotal style similar to that of Fellini's earlier film, Roma. Episodes succeed each other in a vaguely chronological order, but there is no plot, no continuum of theme, no development of character or emotions. One woman is followed by another woman, and another woman, one court, another court, one spectacle, another spectacle, another spectacle. One fuck, another fuck, another fuck...
Worse, the movie makes no attempt to show that these vile creatures are only part of a long political continuum that still violates our rights and freedom. Instead, they seem like black-hatted cowboys who have long faded into the setting...
...DISPLEASURE of many Marxists, the issues that confront the Supreme Court cannot easily be placed on a left-right continuum. The task of the high court's justices is to interpret the Constitution, not to overthrow it, and the appointment of a "left-leaning" justice, as The Crimson's editorial suggests, could have a detrimental effect on individual liberties...
...unable to adapt to the callousness of the struggle. From being herself a child needing protection. Emily has become a protector, assuming an adult's responsibility to take care of others. But only the narrator can provide a backdrop to Emily's growth, for she alone can see a continuum, the "hinterland which had formed" the girl. Somehow, miraculously, the narrator is able to see through the walls of her apartment to Emily's past, where she watches her pre-holocaust infancy and childhood: the insensitive mother, the kindly but officious father. Emily's childhood was one of roles...
...modern artist in Europe was not the same thing. There, at least in Paris, one had an accessible field of new art. However poor, however rejected or unsuccessful he might be, the Parisian artist could afford to feel that he was part of a continuum known as the avantgarde. In America this was not so; the way to a modernist aesthetic lay through nearly impassable thickets of provincialism, with a very meager supply of information as a guide...