Word: formless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kanpu's Whistles. The instruments Li Fu-chun used to shape the formless multitude were the kanpus, or cadres, who carry out Peking's policies at all levels of society. They hustled China's peasant millions into people's communes, complete with mess halls, barracks, and the loss of identity common to military life. Routed from bed at dawn, the peasants lined up for roll call and marched off under red banners to the mist-hung fields. At the sound of the kanpu's whistle, they raced to their tasks of plowing, weeding or reaping...
David Berman's rather bulky portfolio of verse represents no appreciable growth in technique or feeling over his last published collection. Verbal pretension and technical sloppiness clutter passage after passage. Berman's poetry has the appearance of craftsmanship, but the shimmer of alliteration and assonance disguises a formless ooze of lush words...
...ITALIAN: Violent Summer is an old wave film about a short, sensuous, foredoomed affair played out in 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...
...ITALIAN: Violent Summer is an old-wave film about a short, sensuous, foredoomed affair played out in 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...
...Dolce Vita (in Italian). A sprawling, formless masterpiece of modern Rome's spiritual depravity and sexual excess...