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...scene was a supper party celebrating the opening of Maria Callas' first film, Medea. And who should be prominently in the foreground? None other than Old Boyfriend Aristotle Onassis. Sans Jackie, of course. The former famous twosome even got together during Christmas holidays while Jackie was in England with her children. Won't Mrs. O. mind? "Jackie is tough," says Ari. Just how tough-and in which way -remains to be seen...
...will not let hell enough alone. After dodging bullets for three years, Patton was maimed in a peacetime automobile accident. The steel soldier died paralyzed from the neck down. But Patton leaves the general alive, walking across a wide field, wistful and quixotic. A windmill obligingly wheels in the foreground, lest the audience miss the intent...
...Cover: Photographic design by Fred Burrell, who utilized a dramatically lit wood-and-polychrome Ibo mask. The figures in the foreground symbolize Biafran refugees...
...playing with the light and shade of the passing trees. When the bandits take her from them, fast tracks of incredible violence following them running along the shore after the women are cut against shots of her being carried off in a boat. In every track characters and setting, foreground and background, seem to be moving in the same direction, but along parallel lines so that they will never meet. One keeps wishing that their direction would be broken, that a character would penetrate into depth and bring everything back together...
Haymaking, at Prague, continues Bruegel's calendar series into early summer. Here three foreground figures - farm women this time - may be simply three women on the way to the fields (see detail, page 57). But they might also be the Maid, Mother and Crone of mythology. The people carrying baskets of cherries move round and down like planets - or automatons on a town clock. In the distance at right, a sailboat drops downriver toward the gleaming sea (see detail, pages 54-55). "The journey is not ended," a Flemish proverb says, "even after church and tower have been recognized...