Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rocco he has reverently revived the techniques he and such directors as Rossellini (Open City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour brawl of exposed frames that Visconti could not bring himself to edit, there is also some of the power of the postwar masterpieces...
...needlessly apes a silent-film villain-slack jaw, rolling eyes and all. Whole episodes are unprofitably murky. A question at the core of the film -whether corrosive city is preferable to deadening land-is never convincingly asked, although Rocco is supposed to end with its answer. Worst is the endless mayhem. Visconti's camera is a carnivore, stalking for blood and bruised flesh, and the sight is fascinating. But it is like a lion tearing at a zebra: only a spectator with a great hatred for zebras can watch it for long...
...holiday is a national urge to gas up the family car and take to the road-and a National Safety Council compulsion to predict the number of travelers who will never get home. The ghoulish guess on highway carnage resounds on TV and radio, runs in routine lament through endless headlines and holiday editorials. Observing tradition, the Safety Council predicted that 450 corpses would litter U.S. highways during the four-day July 4 weekend. By July 5, the estimate proved conservative: 509 car riders had been killed, and "a new record" set. Lamented Safety Council Vice President George C. Stewart...
...Long Count. Testifying seated in his cage, Eichmann fired his words out in an endless, tumbling torrent. Asked to give the date he returned to Prague from Berlin, Eichmann responded with a 250-word answer. After a spectacular, 225-word sentence whose meaning, perhaps intentionally, escaped everyone in the court, both Judge Landau and Defense Attorney Robert Servatius warned Eichmann to speak to the point. "I know the German verb comes at the end of the sentence," said Landau, "but we are having to wait too long for the verb...
...Fascist Italy In Two Women, mother (Sophia Loren) and daughter (Eleonora Brown) prove that in World War II Italy, only those who suffer can love. La Dolce Vita is a sprawling, formless masterpiece of modern Rome's spiritual depravity and sexual excess, and L'Avventura is another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates...