Word: elia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ELIA KAZAN: A LIFE by Elia Kazan (Knopf; $24.95). A bustling, bruising, unbridled autobiography by a leading film and theatrical director and force of nature...
...ELIA KAZAN: A LIFE by Elia Kazan (Knopf; $24.95). A bruising, unbridled autobiography by a noted film and theatrical director and force of nature...
...imagine that, from time to time, you've thought my book unfair, ugly, and hateful," writes Elia Kazan, 78, toward the end of this bustling, bruising autobiography. "Here and there it is vulgar too." Well, er, yes, now that you mention...
...evoke violent reactions. The futurists set out to create the image of an Italy that did not yet exist, a utopia of tension and transformation whose god was the machine. Its architecture would not be the old cellular stone hill town but the dream environment conjured up by Sant'Elia: all girders and concrete cliffs, with glass elevators zipping up the exterior walls. Its painting would try to encompass not just sight but noise, heat and smell; above all, it would depict movement. To fix this industrial mode in Italian (and European) culture, the pastoral mode had to be slaughtered...