Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WOMAN IN THE DUNES. A man and a woman trapped in a sand pit get down to the gritty substance of Everyman's fate in this luminous, violent allegory by Japanese Director Hiroshi Teshigahara...
...rebels' other white prisoners-60 Americans and 800 Belgians-would be released only after the U.S. and Belgium withdrew all aid to Tshombe's army. Last week Radio Stanleyville reported that Carlson's execution had been delayed in order to negotiate his release and the fate of the other prisoners directly with Washington. The rebels obviously wanted to gain time to get more outside help, presumably from their Red Chinese backers...
...Nothing Inhuman. Of principal concern at week's end was the fate of 1,000 whites still trapped in rebel territory. Among the prisoners were 63 Americans, including the five-man U.S. consulate staff in Stanleyville, who have been held under guard for more than two months in a hotel room. With Tshombe's forces closing in, "President" Christophe Gbenye of the rebel "People's Republic" may try to use the whites as hostages to improve his bargaining position...
...must take part in the whole misery that is to come. We must surrender our heart and our nerves to the dreadful screams of pain of the poor disillusioned people....Our superfluous, self-filled existence can now be motivated only by giving our fellow men a picture of their fate, and this can be done only if you love them...
Relentlessly probing his own consciousness, he tries to fulfill his vow to give his fellow men a picture of their fate. Beckmann's numerous self-portraits testify to his preoccupation with defining his identity, allowing us to share in these moments of self-confrontation. He began to draw himself at an early age--his 1898 "Self-Portrait with Soap Bubbles" is an idyllic scene of the fourteen-year-old Beckmann, facing sideways, blowing soap bubbles across a whole countryside of space. This leisurely, carefree, open stance does not fit him for long, for within three years he produces...