Word: ekberg
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...general audience. A Man and a Woman, I Am Curious (Yellow), Z--all were hits. Fellini's 3-hour La Dolce Vita, released in subtitled and dubbed versions, grossed the 1961 equivalent of $80 million. Part of its appeal was in the panoramic views of Roman naughtiness and Anita Ekberg's cleavage. But Fellini, along with many other directors, was experimenting with visual language. Imagine: here were new ways of seeing the world on film...
...exclamation point. So into this narrow shop he has insinuated a staircase of varnished particle board that runs from the lower level to the center of the main floor. Jazzy, glamorous and slightly disreputable, this is a staircase that's a force to be reckoned with, like Anita Ekberg stepping out of the Trevi Fountain in La Dolce Vita...
...here. Way too much is here, Meyer believing with William Blake that the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. He must, for it is his nature, document his preoccupation with protuberances: the meditation comparing English bosoms to Italian abbondanzas, the tribute to "Anita Ekberg's gravity-defying / conically capacious dairying facilities." But he is as generous to other, minor bards as he is to himself, including long excerpts of movie critiques from the likes of the Kankakee Clarion, the Chico News and Review...