Word: etruscans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figures chiseled out of Etruscan boulders include a 19-ft.-high elephant crushing a warrior in its trunk, a giant dismembering a man, a goddess with each pubic hair clearly delineated, and a 20-ft. satanic head whose mouth opens into a large chamber. These overwhelming creations are 50 miles north of Rome. It is known only that they were carved between 1555 and 1585 at the command of Duke Pier Francesco Orsini...
MUZEEKA, a wry parable about a man who is an Etruscan in his fantasies and a sellout in life, serves as a showcase for Playwright John Guare's eclectic imagination and disarming dialogue. Red Cross, by Sam Shepard, shares the bill...
MUZEEKA has as its hero Jack Argue. He composes rapturous songs from the words on a penny and dreams of being an ancient Etruscan, but he spends his life as an employee of a piped-in music firm and dies in Viet Nam with a unit assigned to fight before NBC cameras exclusively. John Guare's debut as a playwright displays a store of rich imagery and imagination...
When the floods struck the Archeological Museum, they overturned the display cases, shattered the glass and swept off the objects on display. Most of the objects came from the Etruscan tombs and need not only to be recovered but must also be sorted out according to which objects came from which tombs...
...fountain statue and the spectacular 104-ft.-long Neptune Pool, kept a constant 70° while Hearst lived. The pool was last used as a set for Spartacus, and it required no added props. As laid out by Hearst's architect, Julia Morgan, it is surrounded by two Etruscan-style colonnades, backed by a Greco-Roman temple, and fronted by a marble Birth of Venus. Equally awe-inspiring is the 83-ft.-long assembly hall with an immense 16th century Italian carved-walnut ceiling and a 16th century French stone mantelpiece for which Hearst outbid even John D. Rockefeller...