Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Further Decay. It was Dolce Vita's Fellini who exploited most fully the characteristics that had long since made Mastroianni (Mass-tro-yahn-ee) one of the most popular actors in Italy. His handsome face, young in its outlines but creased with premature wrinkles, has a frightened, characteristically 20th century look-as of a mantis who has lost faith in the efficacy of prayer. He suggests the all-round fellow of the 1960s who is the antithesis of Renaissance man-painfully aware of nearly everything, truly able at nothing. His spine seems to be a stack of plastic napkin...
...rate, and he has so often been cast as "himself"-he was even called Marcello in Dolce Vita-that he went eagerly for his role as a Sicilian nobleman in Divorce-Italian Style, which gave him a chance to grease down his hair, grow a mustache, and decay even more. But the man himself is nothing like the prototype his appearance symbolizes. Whereas he zealously chased a great-bosomed movie star (Anita Ekberg) in Dolce Vita, he fled when a great-bosomed movie star (Brigitte Bardot) recently chased him in real life. They were making a film together called...
However, Taylor's exclusion of any first-rate author but Cooper perhaps overdoes a good thing. Precisely because the Southern Cavalier so closely resembled the Romantic hero--doomed, indecisive, in love with decay--it is a shame that Taylor does no more than mention Poe (in a casual reference to Roderick Usher) and the lesser-known Southern Gothics...
...been able to carry home with them. People living in Oriente province, which surrounds the base, have been especially hard hit by the breakdown of Cuba's distribution system. Beef and chickens, frozen when they leave Havana 600 miles away, arrive in Oriente in an advanced state of decay; so do dairy products. Said one Cuban on the base: "Our meat sometimes has worms, and when it doesn't it smells to the heavens. I do not know how long we can live like this." Added another: "Now they tell us, 'You won't stick...
preside over all organic changes-growth and reproduction, death and decay. Modern industry uses more of them every year, and there seem to be few limits to what they...